Summarising Medical Records

Wessex Local Medical Committees event

Thursday 28 November 2024 at Zoom

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This is a morning event.

Times: 09:30 - 12:30

Speakers

Mrs Alison Bingley

Log into Zoom 09:15 session runs 09:30 to 12:30

This interactive session will be delivered via Zoom and will also include hands-on practical exercises discussed in light of each delegate’s own practice protocol.  To participate you will need a device capable of running Zoom, that also has a microphone and speakers, a camera is beneficial but not essential.

Introduction 

This course is suitable for:

• Any staff managing medical records systems.
• Staff responsible for undertaking the organising, sorting and summarising of medical records and also for those for whom this may become part of their role.
• Staff responsible for clinical data entry including QOF data.

The Summarising Medical Records online course will allow delegates to learn how to organise and summarise medical records. Delegates will be taught some relevant medical abbreviations and terminology and confidentiality issues surrounding summarising medical records will be explored. In addition the course enables delegates to understand the relevance of summarising in relation to the achievement of QOF clinical targets. 

Aims

The course will cover:

• Overview of paper and electronic medical records
• Organising and pruning medical records
• Protocol formation
• Summarising medical records and editing the electronic patient record (EPR)
• Summarising and the effect on QOF and disease areas
• Data protection and confidentiality
• Terms and abbreviations
• Summarising practical exercise

Objectives

This course is designed to enable delegates to:

• Understand the importance of summarising medical records
• Understand best practice regarding the summarising process and the importance of having a protocol for summarising medical records
• Be able to summarise medical records logically, efficiently and effectively
• Gain an overview of QOF targets and how summarising can help in achievement of these targets
• Understand the importance of confidentiality and data protection in the process of summarising
• Be able to identify issues that they need to follow up when returning to their place of work

Trainer: Alison Bingley

Alison has a background in the pharmaceutical industry having spent 6 years as a Territory Manager covering GP surgeries. She has a BSC. Hons degree in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Southampton and joined MST as an associate trainer in 1996

 

 

 

 

Please note:

• We require your permission to pass your email address to the trainers so that they can send you the link to join the online session.  Continuation with this booking will be taken as tacit approval to pass on this information.   

• This session will NOT be recorded

Subsidised Booking Options

Wessex LMCs hold a number of funds for different organisations, specifically for training purposes.  By using these funds, many of our 'members' are able to access training without direct recourse to Practice Funds.  It is important that you select the appropriate funding option in the booking process, so that we can assign your booking to the correct funding stream, and here is some guidance to help you decide.

All GPs and Members of Staff working within GP Practices in the Wessex LMCs' catchment area 

Please use this option if you are working in a Practice in the Wessex LMC catchment area and do not fit into one of the other options on offer.  This option may, or may not, have a cost attached.

Non Members 

Please use this option if you are not working in a Practice in the Wessex LMCs catchment area. 

Location details

Zoom

Is the training accessible to wheelchairs? Yes

Main contact

Name: Wessex LMCs LEaD Team

Email: lead@wessexlmcs.org.uk

Phone: 02380 253874

If you have any communication or mobility needs that the event organisers need to be aware of please contact them in advance of the course to let them know.