Alastair Beattie
NHS Information Specialist 1981-2026
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Health care for a relative in a care home
If you’ve worked in the NHS or a GP practice(1), then there’s a good chance you learnt how processes involving patients or information about their care really work in practice. There is often a difference between how things are imagined to work and how they actually work (2). But working in healthcare and talking to…
The patient, the taxpayer and the hospital PAS*
* Patient Administration System It was a great promise for the 2000s. The new hospital IT system was going to do everything the staff wanted and make it easier to provide a patient-focussed service. The hospital confirmed a successful implementation. So when the reported data from the new system showed hundreds of patients waiting over…
Waiting to see the GP (and data provenance)
I’m registered with an excellent GP practice, so when I phoned in the afternoon I wasn’t surprised the receptionist allowed me to book an appointment in a month’s time. The GP had suggested I go back to see him if the complaint worsened, but I wanted to record some daily observations before the appointment so…
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