GP Fanfare A New Approach to Information Management for GPs.
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GP Fanfare
A New Approach to Information Management for GPs
Data, data, everywhere!
• Referral forms• New and revised services• Pathways, guidelines and protocols• Alerts• Contact details
A shrinking NHS
• 85% and reducing• Increasingly tightly controlled by GP
commissioners• Information management getting easier
A growing independent & voluntary sector
• 15% and increasing• More and more choices• Controlled by no-one• Information management getting harder
Ever-increasing specialisation
• Specialities and sub-specialities• Niche services
A changing workforce
• More sessional and locum work• More part timers• Greater mobility• “Time out”• Sabbaticals• Maternity leave
Better-informed patients
• Often know what they want• Don’t know how to access what they want• Need the GP to be a “navigator”
Increasing pressure to do more in the consultation
• Matching PUNs (Patients’ Unmet Needs) with EARs (Easily Accessible Resources)
• Niche need with niche resource
The problems with web listings...
• Not comprehensive – independent and voluntary sector often poorly represented
• Keeping documents up to date - very administrator-dependent
• Not always easily searchable
GP fanfare
• Universal document repository• Any document tag-able (PDF, MS Word, MS
PowerPoint, MS Excel, PDF)• Searchable• NHS, independent and voluntary sectors• Free to all users
GP fanfare – viewer portal
• Secure – password controlled• Intuitive search facility• “Favourites” list• Directory of posters
GP fanfare – poster portal
• Secure – password controlled• Upload facility• Extensive list of tag terms – ability to add
more• Edit/delete facility
A spectrum of users
• GPs – established principals - new locums• Other clinical staff• Managers
• ?Main information portal• ?Sits alongside commissioners portal
and practice intranet
Screen shots
• The following screens show how documents are uploaded and searched for:
Uploading a document
Document search
• Simple search
Document search
• Advanced search