GP2GP Degraded Records
There are some elements of electronic health records which cannot be transferred in a completely structured form. This is due to different conventions on different GP clinical systems and where different coding schemes are used. Vision 3 to Vision 3 transfers are unlikely to produce degraded records, but other suppliers to Vision 3 (where different codes are used) may. This particularly affects medication, allergies and some business functions such as recalls. Some data may be missing a Read code. This kind of record, which require attention, is called a degraded record.
Degraded records have a Read code 9bJ Transfer-degraded record entry:
- 9bJ0 Transfer-degraded medication entry
- 9bJ1 Transfer-degraded referral
- 9bJ2 Transfer-degraded request (though note that requests are not transferred in GP2GP)
- 9bJ3 Transfer-degraded plan (this refers to recalls)
- 9bJ4 Transfer-degraded drug allergy
- 9bJ5 Transfer-degraded non-drug allergy
To list and address degraded records:
- From Consultation Manager
, double click on the Alert pane line Degraded GP2GP Records. - The degraded records are displayed on a filtered tab.
- Work through each record, by right clicking and then selecting Edit.
- Select the correct Read codes, priority etc.
- Now, select OK to save and close the entry.
- Repeat steps 3 - 5 until all the degraded records are addressed.
Clinicians need to be made aware that data in unsummarised GP2GP Records may not appear where they are used to seeing it, for example, in the previous practice, priority numbers may differ, or problems may or may not have been used.
