Digital Patient Records - FOI Response Register

FoI Number
2023-809
Subject
Digital Patient Records
Date Received
20/03/2024
Request and Response
  1. Do community pharmacists in your Board area have any access to view digital clinical systems?

Yes

  1. If yes, which systems can community pharmacists view? E.g. Emergency Care Summary; Key Information Summary; clinical portal; SCISTORE; laboratory results; imaging results; Care partner; Morse; Badgernet; EMIS/Vision; HePMA; Trakcare

Emergency Care Summary

EMIS

a.         Are there any restrictions to the access e.g. partial access to the system? Please expand.

EMIS access has only been taken up by one pharmacy and is read only. ECS is available to all pharmacist and pharmacy technicians

b.         How many community pharmacist users have view only access?

 See answer above

  1. Do community pharmacists in your Board area have any access to write to digital clinical systems?

No

  1. If yes, which systems can community pharmacists write within? E.g. Emergency Care Summary; Key Information Summary; clinical portal; SCISTORE; laboratory results; imaging results; Care partner; Morse; Badgernet; EMIS/Vision; HePMA; Trakcare        

a.   Are there any restrictions to the access e.g. partial access to write in certain fields? Please expand.

b.   How many community pharmacist users have write access?

N/A

  1. If no to Q1, are there any current work streams with community pharmacist access to digital clinical systems as a desired output in progress within your Health Board?

No

  1. If community pharmacists have access to digital clinical systems in your Health Board, how many of these have accessed any system(s) in the most recent 4 month period?

The only pharmacist who has a login to three GP Practice EMIS systems has accessed only one of the three sites since 01 October 2023 on five occasions to reset their password

a.   What proportion of these episodes of access occurred during the out of hours period i.e. after 5pm Monday to Friday and weekends?

All five occasions are during the OOH period - between 5pm & 6pm

  1. How many accounts have been opened for community pharmacists and then deactivated due to non-use in the most recent 4 year period?

One account has been opened at three different sites. Only one account is active and the other two accounts have been deactivated presumably due to non-use.

  1. If community pharmacists have access to digital clinical systems in your Health Board, what proportion of these are pharmacist prescribers?

One

  1. How many community pharmacies in your Health Board area are registered as a provider of the Pharmacy First Plus Service?

Zero

a. What proportion of these have access accounts for any digital clinical systems in your Health Board area?

 Zero