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How Much Time and Resources Are Spent Trying to Maintain Computerised Electronic Patient Records in Liaison Psychiatry.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
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INTRODUCTION
The Department of Health in the UK wants the National Health Service to make £20 Billion worth of efficiency savings by 2015 to reinvest.
In the UK the General Hospitals use paper records which are then scanned to create electronic records while Psychiatric Hospitals require that information to be typed on to their electronic records and these electronic records are not available to each other.
Therefore liaison psychiatry assessments require a written entry to be made in the Medical notes and a second entry typed on to the psychiatric electronic patient record which requires a full psychiatric history.
Objective
This duplication in typing information was consuming a considerable amount of this Teams time and resources which could have instead been spent with patients.
Aim
To identify how much time is spent by Staff typing information on to the psychiatric electronic patient records.
Methods
We electronically checked for the preceding three months the amount of time spent typing information on to the electronic records after every liaison psychiatry assessment.
We were then able to obtain the average for every week.
Result
On average about 36 to 40 hours were spent every week typing information on to the electronic records.
Conclusion
Liaison Psychiatry should dispense with the requirement for information to be duplicated on to the electronic patient records and should instead scan the written entry made in the Medical notes.
This should lead to a saving of about £50,000, enough to employ an additional member of Staff every week.
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- Article: 1258
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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