This appeared last week:
Almost 14m patients using online GP services across England
3 April 2018
Almost 14 million patients across England are now using online GP services to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view their records.
According latest figures from NHS England, there has been a 42% increase in the number of people who are signed up for online services compared to the same time last year.This means 24 per cent of patients (13.9 million) in England are now registered, which NHS England hopes will ease pressure on GPs and their staff and save patients time.
NHS Digital figures from February 2018 show an average of one million appointments are being made or cancelled online every month and nearly 2.3 million prescriptions ordered online, as more practices and their patients increasingly use digital technology.
Juliet Bauer, chief digital officer for the NHS, said: “We’re delighted to see an almost doubling in the numbers of people accessing digital services in GP practices since last year.
More here:
https://www.digitalhealth.net/2018/04/14m-patients-online-gp-services-england/
Frankly these are just amazing figures that make it utterly clear as to what patients actually want. They want to be able to make appointments, ask for prescription repeats and view their ACTUAL LIVE health record (not some incomplete partial copy – which will never provide the functionality they want and need).
To me seeing the voluntary response you get to Digital Health when you provide patients with what they want, compared with having to dragoon them into having something they don’t want, is a pretty stark condemnation of the ADHA’s policy performance, direction incompetence and frankly evil intent.
It really is as simple as that.
Just what is causing this stubbornness to persist in the face of clear evidence is now becoming clear and the bottom line is that the ADHA and the DOH are playing the Doctors (AMA, RACGP etc.) and the public for mugs. The myHR is intending to be a giant health information data-base, contributed by patients and their doctors for free, to allow the Government to better monitor and ultimately control the medical profession and what they do for their patients and what mistakes they make in the Government's eyes.
Just ask yourself just why else would they spend what is now heading towards $2 Billion and move towards compulsory use of the system if that was not their goal? This is nothing to do with patient safely and quality of care and all about Government attempting to manage, by deceit, one of their largest cost centres.
We all understand the backlash against Facebook when their cunning plan was exposed. The same will be the medical and patient backlash when they realise they are just unpaid data collectors.
Spread the word and explain to your friends how they are being deceived - as seems to be more common than it used to be with Government these days (think robo-debt, data disclosures etc.)!
David.
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I think the ADHA is not equiped to know they are being played. Which is a shame especially for some of the clinical folk. Does explain why Timmy ousted anyone with a clue and courage to whisper an alternative vision. They also have some on the teaser train believing if they hand in some change might come about.
Not sure either major party is in a position to do anything they are far from having their acts together
It has been known for years that two of the main things patients want to be able to do online is to make appointments and to request repeat prescriptions.
Online appointment systems are now used commonly in Australian general practice, because it saves practices staff time and because patients like it.
Currently most Australian GPs don't want to respond to online requests for repeat prescriptions only because no third party funder of health care, such as Medicare, DVA or private health funds, is offering to pay for or to subsidise the GPs' time to do so. British GPs are paid mainly by capitation, which makes them quite happy not to have to see the patient in their office if they don't have to. If the system of funding general practice in Australia was changed to adequately subsidise the GPs' time spent in responding to online requests for repeat prescriptions, I think that Australian GPs would take to this as readily as their colleagues in other countries whose funding systems support this.
I think we should face facts that ADHA is simply the arm of the Department that is solely focused my the MyHR. Do not look for them to be interested in anything else. The nation no longer has a national body that can advance HIT inderpendantly from a solution. There will be lip service for a year or so but at the end of the day if you do not prey at the MyHR altar do not expect and audience with the high priests.
7:57am you are probably correct. That is a worry, ADHA can’t seemingly keep their tiny corporate IT running and with errors appearing in the MyHR ( pulse it this week, that is more than just luck. That is math) we are it for an amusing year
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