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The practice has computerised clinical records and the software we use is called SystmOne - click here to go to their website. SystmOne is a computerised clinical record that lots of GPs and other healthcare departments and units use. Currently GPs can see all the information that is entered onto your clinical records by non-GP units but non-GP units can only see data on your GP record if the non-GP departments ask for a 'share' of your records. The way that patient data is shared between different departments and units on SystmOne is about to fundamentally change so that it is much more explicit who patients have given consent to view and share their records. The new system is called the Enhanced Data Sharing Model (eDSM) and it will allow staff the opportunity to record patient's explicit consent for sharing their records. With eDSM patients will be asked whether they would like to Share In and Share Out at each care service or department they are registered with. P

If you have been into the surgery this week you might have come across a couple of new faces. Last week Helen, who is a fourth year medical student at Newcastle joined us for four weeks and Rachel who is an Open University nursing student joined us for eight weeks. Rachel is employed as a Healthcare Assistant at St James in Leeds as is undergoing training to become a registered nurse via the Open University route for Healthcare Assistants. It is a really good way to become a registered nurse because you are in a job and get paid and currently Health Education Yorkshire and Humber pays for your training - its brilliant! To find out more about how the OU helps people to become registered nurses click here . And we also have two new apprentices, Justine and Olivia, who have joined us to train in the admin role of providing healthcare. Apprenticeship train young people in work-based training programmes that lead to national recognised qualifications. To find out more about apprentices c

The NHS has allowed the prescription of gluten free foods to people with coeliac disease for some time. People with coeliac disease need to have a gluten free diet otherwise they will become ill. Gluten is present in flour but there are gluten free substitutes available. The NHS advices that staple gluten-free foods should be available to all people diagnosed with coeliac disease. This includes bread/rolls, crackers and crispbreads, flour/flour type mixes, pasta and pizza bases. But in line with healthy eating and advice from Coeliac UK (click here for a link) , Wakefield CCG has advised all Wakefield practices to no longer prescribe cakes/cakes mixes, biscuits and sweet products. People who wish to include these products in their diet are being advised to buy them from the supermarket instead. It is accepted that commercial gluten free products are more expensive that equivalent standard gluten containing products but even Coeliac UK accepts that there is no justification for the

Over the last couple of weeks GP's have been blamed for increasing numbers of patients going to Emergency Departments, the difficulties of the new out of hours service (111) and the pressure put on hospitals because 'allegedly' patients are not being able to see their GP. The clear implication in all this is that GP's are not seeing enough patients! Last year, in Wakefield, 93,419 patients went to the Emergency Department at Pinderfields. In the previous year there were 87,814 attendances and the number attending in 2012/13 increased by 6.3%. At Kings Medical Centre in 2011/12, 57,987 patients had appointments with either a doctor or nurse in the surgery. Last year that number was 62,295, that is an increase of 7.4%! The number of patients coming to our practice is increasing at the same time that the amount of money allocated to GPs to care for patients is set to fall. The Royal College of General Practitioners has predicted that the budget to care for patients wil