TPP -News Archives -03 May 2007

03 May 2007 TPP and CSC Raise Awareness at Practice Manager Event

On Tuesday May 1st 2007, representatives from TPP and CSC attended the Management In Practice Event (MIPE) at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, attended by 500 Practice Managers.

The Management in Practice Event is dedicated to Practice Managers and supports the publication 'Management in Practice', the first journal specifically designed to directly address the ever-expanding role and responsibilities of today’s primary care practice manager.

TPP Director Sue Sanders, and Clinical Director, Dr John Parry, presented SystmOne in a presentation entitled 'Integrated Primary Care and its effect on the practice'. The discussion focussed on how SystmOne used across care settings has been proven to benefit clinicians, administration staff and patients. Sue and John demonstrated how SystmOne can help practices run more efficiently, saving time and money. They also highlighted Practice-based Commissioning, QOF, shared care, Out-Of-Hours, and business processes.

"The aim of attending the event was to raise awareness of SystmOne and of its benefits," said Dr Parry. "In the presentation, we focussed on three sets of benefits: patient benefits - increased safety through shared records; practice benefits - standardising data recording through using templates and formularies in a uniform way; and practitioner benefits - such as use of Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS), learning notes and website bookmarks within SystmOne."

Dr Parry continued, "We had a lot of interest. There were some Practice Managers who had never heard of TPP or SystmOne so to reach them through this event was great. We hope that the Practice Managers we spoke to will return to their surgeries, have a conversation with their colleagues about SystmOne, and speak to their PCTs about the options available to them."

TPP and CSC will be attending another MIPE event at the NEC in Birmingham on October 10th 2007.