Please note that it is not possible to include any attachments on KIS. This is due to a number of factors, notably file size and the requirements for viewing any files. This also helps speed up the sharing of information especially for the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS24.
Following a query from a GP in Glasgow, it can be confirmed that all Current and Past Medical History items must be selected by the GP to ensure that only the relevant items are included on KIS.
It was agreed that there should be no automatic inclusion of codes for this part of KIS to prevent any sensitive codes being included by mistake.
EMIS pilot users are advised that a fix will be released on the next version of EMIS (April) to support the addition of past significant events.
Many thanks to all GP’s from Forth Valley who attended the Key Information Summary workshop on Tuesday 5th and Thursday 7th and provided great feedback (positive and negative) on the pilot to date. We will be taking all feedback forward as part of the ongoing development of KIS and will be updating and improving the guidance for KIS shortly.
Several GP’s reported that KIS is easier to use than ePCS and also liked how easy it was to add free text instead of faxing a Special Note. There were some queries regarding the mandatory Review Date and this will be discussed further.
It has been confirmed that over 500 practices are now sending ECS (and ePCS / KIS) information every 2 hours from GP Practices as part of the process to increase the extract runs and make this inforamtion available as soon as possible.
Boards that have completed this work for all practices are NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Tayside, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Borders and NHS Western Isles.
Plans are in place to roll this process out to all remaining GP Practices over the coming weeks, and more information will be shared on the impact this is having on ECS in due course.