Monthly Archives: April 2012

KIS

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Points raised at meeting of Palliative Care Leads, Perth 30th March 2012

KIS pilots

  • Nurses keen to be able to input directly as not always possible via the GP system
  • Keen to have an end to end evaluation – GP – OOHs – Sec Care
  • Could end of life plans be included? It will be up to pilot practices to choose which patients but hopefully each practice will choose at least 10 patients, including children.

Good news items:

  • ECS patient data extracts are now occurring every two hours at NHS Forth Valley, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and NHS Tayside Health Boards.
  • Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) now have access to ECS, ePCS and KIS from their call centres. Patient consent is being taken by the call handler, and records are visible to paramedics in emergency cabs.
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ePCS

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Points raised at Palliative Care Leads meeting Perth 30th March 

Palliative Care DES

  • All present hoped that the Significant Event Analysis returns from level 2 will be used to inform planning by Health Boards.  Do Boards know how they are to process the SEAs?  Can information be highlighted to Primary Care networks to make them aware that this information is being collected?
  • Health Boards and Primary Care Leads need to be able to make use of this information
  • It was suggested that Palliative Care leads should be putting in a bid for funding (MacMillan ?) for someone to look at these SEAs – PB group to think about this and how they would use this information
  • PB agreed to make contact with David Carroll and the RCGP e Discussion group on palliative care

Can users access ECS through EDIS (the national A/E system?)

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Yes, EDIS has been fully integrated with ECS for at least 3 years and should be a standard part of the system. The button for ECS can be activated once the patient’s name and DoB are confirmed. HOWEVER – EDIS will not be integrated with KIS and there are no plans to develop EDIS further particularly as many boards are moving to Trak or alternative systems.