NHS & Private Healthcare

In many areas the requirements of both the NHS and the private sector are identical with regard to the archiving of records.  However, the Government has placed an emphasis on the NHS to introduce the electronic storage of medial records as the benefits to be gained for both patients and healthcare professionals are enormous. In recent times the NHS has been given more freedom to look across the markets generally to identify which systems offer the best value for money and where possible where savings can be made by utilising existing hardware.

The direction for the NHS of "Equality and Excellent: Liberating the NHS" was outlined by the Health Minister, Simon Burns in the white paper issuedin September 2010:

Improving IT is essential to delivering a patient-centred NHS. But the nationally imposed system is neither necessary nor appropriate to deliver this.”

“The Government intends to bring about an NHS information revolution"

This principle is no less important in the private health sector and the presentation of records is vital as both a working tool for healthcare professionals and also as insurance against any potential litigation.

Our experience of providing document scanning services for over 90 NHS Trusts and numerous private healthcare groups has allowed us to develop a cost effective and secure service for the scanning of all types of health records including:

• Medical Records
• G U M Records
• Occupational Health Files
• Maternity Notes
• Human Resources
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology Notes
• Ophthalmology
• Physiotherapy
• Occupational Health
• Finance

Visit our NHS dedicated website: http://www.nhsdocumentscanning.co.uk