On Saturday, August 08, 1998 11:38 AM, Paul Galloway
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>
> I say again. Creating a high quality computer record is new work and is
not
> a requirement under terms of service (which in fact still require a paper
> record strictly speaking). This work is known to add 2 minutes per
> consultation, require a whole chunk of extra IT investment and training
> nowhere near 100% reimbursed) network management skills, not to mention
the
> professional expertise.
> IMO the electronic data on my practice system belongs to the GP, nobody
> else.
>
> For God's sake don't let your enthusiasm for the subject mean that we all
> end up having to do it as a matter of course. Get together with your
local
> colleague and dig in for new money, or don't give them tha data. If it's
so
> valuable, let them either get it from the hospital end, or pay us for the
> effort.
PCGs maybe able to help out here. If data is required from GPs to enable
them to operate efficiently then having GPs on the board put them in a
stronger position to request funding to acquire that data.
Cost of a GP hitting a keystroke
I reckon there are 250,000,000 primary care consultations a year. GPs type
at say 120 characters a minute so thats 2,000,000 minutes for every key
stroke that is required to be entered in a consultation. If this is costed
at 120UKP an hour that is 4million UKP a keystroke nationwide. Data isn't
cheap so let's start negotiations now.
As I said previously if the commercial sector sees a benefit it invests in
the training and infrastructure necessary to acccomplish it. So lets make
sure if this is coming our way we have the resources to handle it.
Stuart
Stuart Skeates
GP and Course Organiser
Romsey, Hants
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