Out-of-hours special patient notes.

Victoria Holt, Dan Bernstein, Adam Jones, Catherine Millington-Sanders, Georgina Ormerod

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Article in London journal of primary care, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Victoria HoltLondon Central & West Unscheduled Care Collaborative, St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing, London, UK.

Dan BernsteinLondon Central & West Unscheduled Care Collaborative, St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing, London, UK.

Adam JonesLondon Central & West Unscheduled Care Collaborative, St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing, London, UK.

Catherine Millington-SandersLondon Central & West Unscheduled Care Collaborative, St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing, London, UK.

Georgina OrmerodLondon Central & West Unscheduled Care Collaborative, St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing, London, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2011, an out-of-hours service in central London reviewed its system for special patient notes (SPNs) - a main mechanism to communicate valuable information about patients to the clinicians who cover two-thirds of the week when day-time general practices are closed. This revealed that: half of frequent callers did not have an SPNabout half of existing SPNs were out of dateday-time general practitioners (GPs) respond well to requests by out-of-hours doctors to provide an SPNproviding SPNs was low on the list of priorities of day-time GPs who were too busy reacting to everyday problems.

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unscheduled carevulnerable patientswhole-system communication

Identifiers

PMID25949699

PMCPMC3960641

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