Patients: Medical Records
(asked on 17th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which systems are currently being used by NHS Hospital Trusts in England to provide patients with online access to their medical records; and how many (1) registered patient users, and (2) active patient users, use each such system.
The major providers of general practice systems are EMIS, TPP, Vision and Microtest. The following table shows the registered patients for practices with each system with access to online medical records, and the number of views in June 2020 (which can include multiple views by the same patient). A monthly report is published by NHS Digital which shows usage at practice and clinical commissioning group level, and includes online appointments and prescriptions.
Supplier | Number of Patients with Access to Online Medical Records (000) | % of Patients with Access to Online Medical Records | Number of Views in June 2020 |
EMIS | 3,800 | 10.98% | 398,928 |
Microtest | 5 | 4.18% | 5,651 |
TPP | 1,900 | 7.95% | 713,498 |
Vision | 43 | 2.85% | - |
Total | 5,700 | 9.57% | 1,118,077 |
Source: Patient Online Management Information Data - June 2020
Records of the systems used by hospital trusts are not collected centrally as this is managed by individual trusts.