Emergency Care Summary

Introduction

Welcome to the Emergency Care Summary (ECS) page on SCIMP. This page contains important information for all practice systems on how to use ECS, how to add additional drugs, the patient leaflet and the latest newsletter.

Published evaluations on ECS are also available from this page. Further information is available from the main ECS website: www.ecs.scot.nhs.uk [only available via NHS networks]

Consultation on prescription sharing for medicines reconciliation

ECS Newsletters

Advice from Information Commissioner on coding Violent Patients

Audit Scotland Report – Managing Medicines

GP Practice Information

INPS – CONSENT

EMIS – TH371 PCS Scotland ECS Consent

From the moment a flag is set against the patient’s computer record, clinical data will be removed from the ECS store and a message will be displayed stating that ‘patient consent has been withheld’. This applies to ALL data, including historic data and telephone numbers [screeenshot of EMIS consent]

There should be an icon – usually on the Practice Manager’s PC in

C:\ProgramFiles\GPASS\ECSAdministration.exe

Key in a Prescription without Printing it Out [Word document]

GP Practice Pack

The following documents were issued to all GP Practices. Electronic copies of all documents are available here:

SCIMP ECS Letter / Letter re test patients / ECS Leaflet / Printing ECS Summary /GP Practice Administrator Training Guide V1.7 /ECS_FAQs_updated_March_2011 / Practice Poster / NHS24 Access to ECS

Consumer Focus Scotland

The following leaflets and information is available from Consumer Focus Scotland

Health online – public attitudes to sharing in the NHS

Evaluations

The following evaluations have been published on ECS:

Lanarkshire Pilot of ECS in Scheduled Care evaluationAccident and Emergency ECS Evaluation Final v1.0CFS Focus Group Final report v3 Aug 08ECS Usage Stats for Prog Board Jan – Dec 2009 report v2EHRI Final Report 2009

HRIS evaluation Report

RSM ECS 1500 20.10.08 v3

Pharmacy Evaluation August 2008 FINAL1

Quality_Improvement_report_final

ECS paper March 2011 HIJ_July 2011

Gartner ECS case_study_149175 June 07

Presentations

ECS Presentation Hannover 2010 v2

ECS Presentation Norway Tour 100114

The RCGP have published a structure for the Summary Care Record

ePCS

www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/LivingandDyingWell

www.ecs.scot.nhs.uk/index.php/epcs-palliative-care