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In order to enable patients to compare and choose hospitals the national NHS website established a hospital comparison tool. [7] The information that users can access to compare hospital performance can include: The number of procedures carried out; Waiting times; Average time spent in hospital; Patient outcomes (Readmission rates) Rates of ...
The NHS e-Referral Service (ERS) is an electronic referral system developed for the Health and Social Care Information Centre by IT consultancy BJSS. It is used by NHS England and it replaced the Choose and Book service on 15 June 2015. [ 1 ]
When making decisions about healthcare, NHS patients are free to choose where they are treated based on what matters most to them, whether that is how far to travel, how long to wait, or how the ...
Choose and Book was an E-Booking software application for the National Health Service (NHS) in England which enabled patients needing an outpatient appointment to choose which hospital they were referred to by their general practitioner (GP), and to book a convenient date and time for their appointment.
A system developed for renal patients, Renal patient view, provides online information for kidney patients’ including diagnoses, treatment and latest test results. [18] Almost all renal units in the UK can use this system, and it has been extended to patients with inflammatory bowel disease and diabetes in Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.
The Personal Demographics Service (PDS), which stores demographic information about each patient and their NHS number. Patients cannot opt-out from this component of the spine, although they can mark their record as 'sensitive' to prevent their contact details being viewed by 831,000 staff. The Summary Care Record (SCR).
In 2019 only 10% of NHS trusts claimed to be fully digitised. The NHS Long Term Plan requires all hospitals to move to digital records by 2023, so clinicians can access and interact with patient records and care plans wherever they are. As of 2019, 62% of trusts have plans to digitise all their patient records. [11]
The register exists to ensure that patients can be correctly identified, and that all information pertaining to a patient's health is available to providers of care. [6] Patients are identified using a ten-digit number known as the CHI Number, [7] pronounced /ˈkaɪ/. [8]