The Service Registration Assistant (SRA), a new platform currently being trialled in Northern NSW, is already yielding significant improvements to GP data quality in the Northern NSW Local Health District’s (NNSWLHD) GP address book.
The SRA is designed for service providers to update their contact information in a single place, and publish to many – helping to reduce administration time, improve data quality and optimise information flow between health service providers.
Close to 50 Northern NSW general practices have signed up for the SRA. 40 of these are already publishing to NNSWLHD, which includes 242 individual GP records. Early results show that some participating practices are now receiving discharge summaries where they haven’t previously.
According to data from these participating practices in the 12 months prior to the SRA, 456 discharge summaries could not be delivered because of missing or inaccurate data in either the practice or GP contact records. That’s 456 patient episodes where safe transfer of care was made more difficult.
Julie Sturgess, North Coast PHN Chief Executive, and Wayne Jones, Northern NSW LHD Chief Executive, are encouraging all Northern NSW general practices and Aboriginal Medical Services to register for the Service Registration Assistant (SRA).
This is your chance to test the platform before the national scale-up evaluation starts in June. By improving your data quality you are helping to deliver continuity and safe transfer of care for your patients.