GP Practices working at scale
GP practices working at scale needs help. For PCNs that have chosen to merge into one practice - its easy - have one clinical system across the entire estate and share out work. For practices that aren’t merging but who want to investigate either working closer with other PCN practices or dare I say it - practices from outside of their PCN who they feel they have more in common with its very hard to deliver any real benefits at scale. Pressure points for practices include: processing of incoming notes and deductions of leavers, summarising and coding of letters and actioning them, handling repeat prescription request and all the monitoring that goes with that, processing results and others.
At the moment there isn’t really a easy solution - there are no real enterprise solutions - 7 practices want to put a room of coders together and they need logons to 7 clinical systems 7 document management systems. What we need is a supra-view that allows certain staff to log in to more than one practice and be logged in and have access to all the users and patients. and perhaps have this be dynamically adjustable based on activity or role. Has anyone solved this? #pcn #primarycare #generalpractice