Electronic Patient Records
Dear Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust,
1. Does the trust have a strategy to manage patient records electronically? If so please detail
2. Does the trust have an EDRMS (electronic document records management system)? If so which EDRMS software does the trust have
3. Which EPR system does the trust have
4. Does the trust have plans to procure an EPR / EDRMS / records management solution?
5. How many physical patient record sets does the trust have?
6. Does the trust utilise a 3rd party storage organisation to store / manage paper notes? If so please detail
7. Has the trust scanned any patient records – in-house via a 3rd party scanning bureau? If so how many records have been digitised?
8. Does the trust have dedicated storage library space for health (and corporate / non-clinical) records?
9. How many personnel are employed within the health records management team (to file, retrieve, update physical records)
10. What percentage of health record availability does the trust achieve?
Yours faithfully,
Mr L Ash
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Dear Mr L Ash
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With reference to your request made under the Freedom of Information Act,
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Stott Lane, Salford, MANCHESTER, M6 8HD
0161 206-1492
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