I think Tim Reynolds may have stopped paper reports in secondary
care ...
Jonathan
On 27 Mar 2008, at 17:39, Richard Jones [Pathology] wrote:
> Grateful for all this. Good to see we are not too far behind best
> practice.
>
> I think managers rarely appreciate the complexity of all this.
>
> Rick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IT working group of the Association of Clinical Biochemists
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Kay
> Sent: 27 March 2008 17:26
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> Subject: Stopping paper reports from Laboratory Medicine
>
> Just realised that my previous posting was misleading.
>
> In Oxford I've written a proposal for getting rid of paper reports in
> secondary care... it hasn't happened yet.
>
> We've stopped sending paper reports to 56 of our 86 general
> practices...
> see previous threads in the archives.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 27 Mar 2008, at 17:16, Jonathan Kay wrote:
>
>> I'll get our proposal to you tomorrow.
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>> The biggest issue we found is... clinicians working in outpatients
>> who
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>> rely on the arrival of the paper report as the notification that the
>> report is available.
>>
>> Jonathan
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>> On 27 Mar 2008, at 16:53, Richard Jones [Pathology] wrote:
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>>> ...if only!
>>>
>>> More seriuously I've been asked to write up a position paper for the
>>> Trust on paperless reporting. I've always ducked this in the past
>>> because of the complexity of the legal and organisational issues.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got such a paper already - or a policy paper which covers
>>> it and/or any national guidance material.
>>>
>>> If you have I'd be grateful to receive it - anything to reduce more
>>> paper production
>>>
>>> Thanks in anticipation
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
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