The Audit Commission is given (in the BMJ editorial today) as
finding hospital records missing in 14% of consultations.
And (in hospitals) a quarter of doctors' time is spent handling
inforation and often intrrrupting colleagues' work to find it.
Not in the editorial, my addendum...
GPs are less likely to lose the records, but many GP consultations
ar by phone, when only the electronic part of the records will be to
hand (and the failure of many systems currently available to show
two copies or two patients simultaneoulsy presents another problem)
or in an out of hours context.
It is no longer acceptable that OoH centres do not provide access to
the notes, IMHO.
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