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
Advice from Information Commissioner on coding Violent Patients
Audit Scotland Report – Managing Medicines
GP Practice Information
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:
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