NHS Sunderland CCG — Procurement for the Provision of Medical Records Scanning for GP Practices in S

Descriptions

A typical GP Practice in Sunderland, with 7100 patients will house approx. 450 000 pages in Lloyd George (LG) Envelopes containing crucial historical medical records for every patient.The detailed personal information stored inside means that security and accuracy are vital and coupled with the fact that many paper records are over 60 years old and in a state of decay and becoming unreadable, this is both clinically and legally unsafe.Practices are required by law to retain patient records, pre-digitisation records are kept within the Lloyd George envelope. For the most part, they can be very paper heavy and take up storage space on a practice site or in secondary storage areas, sometimes at significant costs to practices.39 practices across Sunderland have funding to fully digitise their Lloyd George Records which will not only create efficiencies within general practice but free up much needed space within the practice which can be utilised for clinical use.