NHS Digital has added a new function to the NHS e-Referrals service, enabling clinicians to turn an advice conversation directly into a referral.
It is planning further changes towards the end of March, allowing the advice and guidance function to be integrated into provider systems so that conversations can be directly embedded into the patient’s medical record.
This will save clinicians from switching between systems to seek advice from each other.
NHS Digital said the changes come from feedback from GPs and consultants using the service.
Its senior clinical lead, Martin O’Keefe, said: “By making it easier for primary and secondary care clinicians to talk to each other, we know that GPs can get the advice they need at their fingertips while hospital consultants can have greater confidence that a referral is appropriate before a patient is referred to them.
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Pictures taken of victim Eileen O Keefe, 11 days before she realised her adopted son Martin Ginger O Keefe was stealing from her, show a happy confident woman enjoying her life.
But another, taken in hospital a month afterwards, reveals the terrible toll his betrayal exacted - daughter Jackie told this newspaper. What Martin did … it broke her, said Jackie. She went from being a happy, confident woman to someone who didn t want to eat or drink.