With snow all across the UK and weather reports show no signs of relief from ‘the big freeze’, causing delay and disruption to postal deliveries. The Royal Mail and leading courier services are warning customers to expect delays to normal services. Despite the weather EDT Hub continues to deliver GP correspondence electronically without delay.
The EDT Hub solution is relied on by 75 NHS provider organisations to send Discharge Summaries, Discharge Letters, Encounter Reports, Radiology Reports, Outpatient Clinic Letters, Out-of-Hours Reports and 111 messages electronically. NHS Tayside has recently sent over 1 million documents electronically through EDT Hub from 8 document sources, to make considerable time and cost savings.
Denise Mumford, IT Programme Manager (ECKPCT) “By sending documents electronically we can audit the process and be safe in the knowledge that letters do not get lost in the post. We deployed EDT Hub as we can accurately report on areas to provide us with some valuable information and so we know that the document is received by the GP Practice.”
Tim Robinson, Sales and Marketing Manager, PCTI Solutions “Millions of patient letters are being sent through PCTI’s electronic document transfer Hubs every month. The documents are sent securely to GP practices, if the practice uses Docman the market leading document management solution, the letters are delivered into the centre of a practice’s workflow process. Practices can easily reject letters electronically and there is a complete audit trail of activity.”
EDT Hub not only offers secure, practical solutions, but also encourages substantial time and cost savings to trusts and GP practices. Typically a practice saves over 50 seconds per letter when receiving a letter electronically, with the Trust benefiting from 41 seconds per letter from the many process eliminated. The solution deliver patient letters electronically in real-time and not days of them leaving the hospital, without putting patient care on hold.
To arrange a meeting to discuss how you are going to prepare to become paperless, call our team on 01977 664496 or email edt@pcti.co.uk