National Document Repository: Access and Store Digital Patient Documents Service
The Access and Store Digital Patient Documents Service has had an upgrade! There are new features to help your practice. You can now upload documents for any patient.
- Upload scanned paper Lloyd George records and add pages to an existing scanned Lloyd George record
- Upload other patient documents and records, including digital printouts of the full electronic health record when GP2GP has failed or can’t be used
- Review and action documents that have been assigned to one of your patients by another practice or couldn’t be uploaded during the bulk upload process (for example, rejected records)
Full guidance is available here: Help and guidance – NHS England Digital
Specific guidance on the new functionality:
What this means for you:
No more printing electronic records to paper
Spend less on printing
Faster access to the patient records you need
This is a big step towards simpler, smarter, paperless record management.
Action: As you will start to receive less paper records and more records for review within the service from other practices we recommend you build the Access and Store Digital Patient Documents Service into your records management processes and check it at least once every two weeks.
And there’s more coming, from the end of March. Practices will be able to:
- Reassign pages in a patient’s scanned paper notes where the wrong patient’s information has been included
- Add and manage staff access restrictions for specific patient records
Join us on one of our webinars where we will explain the new features and how to use them (please add the links for the townhalls you’d like to attend to your diaries):
Wed 4th March 12pm: Town hall: Access and Store Digital Patient Documents Service – New Functionality | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams
Wed 11th March 12pm: Town hall: Access and Store Digital Patient Documents Service – New Functionality | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams
Wed 18th March 12pm: Town hall: Access and Store Digital Patient Documents Service – New Functionality | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams