The East London Patient Record (eLPR) (or the Cerner Portal / Cerner HIE Portal)
This is used to access the shared care record of your patients continues to expand and gain more usage in NEL with the portal now being accessed over 300,000 times a month. There are a number of changes and future developments that it is worth you being aware of and these are:
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) – BHRUT (King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford) have been able to access the portal since May 2022 but we are in the final phase of work to feed data back from BHRUT for GP practices to view. The list of items that you will be able to view are:
– Appointments
– Diagnosis
– Procedures
– Chronic Problems
– Alerts
OneLondon Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The eLPR portal is driven by the HIEs at Barts Health and Homerton. In the first wave of Covid the other 6 HIEs in London (Lewisham and Greenwich, Croydon, Kingston, St Georges, Royal Free and Imperial) were connected to a central hub. There is work ongoing on all of these HIEs to allow you to see patient data held outside of NEL (where it exists). For instance, any of your patients receiving treatment in Royal Free currently is being held back from being shared by a technical issue but this will hopefully be unblocked shortly. Milton Keynes and Herts and West Essex HIEs are also connected to this central hub and again work is under way to make that benefit NEL and London.
Community Pharmacies – Community Pharmacies in NEL now have access to the portal through their PharmOutcomes system for direct patient care. They will be able to see your coded GP data in the same way as other connected organisations can. There currently isn’t a plan to get data back from pharmacies but discussions are ongoing with their systems suppliers to explore options.
Social Care at the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and London Borough of Havering – These are the next two social care organisations that are planning to join the portal (both viewing and sharing data) and we expect them to join around late summer this year. We will be in touch with a more firm date when the plan is finalised. The existing social care organisations that are connected are City of London, Hackney, Newham and Waltham Forest. Tower Hamlets social care should join later this year and discussions with Redbridge are ongoing. Again these organisations will see the coded data that you share with other connected organisations.
All accesses to the HIE are fully auditable in each of the HIEs and conversations are underway to extend access to these audit tools.