Anyone out there using ICE with GUM clinics. If so, how are you handling patient IDs ?

At Bedford we use ICE for reporting the GUM clinic results. These are treated in the same way as any other patient except we have to use the unique code that has been allocated instead of the name, by the clinic. They tend to use a prefix of M or F and then a year and number combined. This is entered into our host system in the name field followed by a comma and then blank. The only thing you have to remember is that when performing a search on ICE it assumes that the number entered is actually a Hospital number, so you have to manually select the NAME radio button to correctly perform the search.

Richard Labrum

just to let you know there is some interest in the Teespath patch to develop an interface to the Blithe Lilley system so that then Patient Access would be managed through Inter-op linked to NHS numbers and therefore Info Gov should be tighter.

would be more affordable and therefore likely to get off the ground if others interested in sharing the costs ???

We have the relic of the old Trent system here but its future is being considered.

New dynamism behind getting results PMIP's into Lilley system. Watch this space ? Anyone interested ?