How many NHS-associated websites do you have to access?

[louisew]

For me, it's not an app - it's a website.
And Systmonline is considerably fewer clicks to get into than the NHS 'app' website!

Really I only have to click login, then all the options come up with most under health

 

[helli]

It’s clearly a problem for you though to have gone to the trouble of writing a post about it so just delete that app and order it through the nhs app.

The NHS app is used differently by different GP surgeries.
Some do not use it for prescriptions.
I guess it’s another part of the postcode lottery.

 

[John Gray]

Er, what's this PSA tracker one, John? My husband and at least one other member here's husband have had prostactectomies for cancer, my OH and I are both trustees of a local prostate cancer support group (ladies can't get prostate cancer but that doesn't mean they never suffer from it! - so we deserve support, too.)

Have a look here - it may be one specific to my local hospital (even!)... But it may exist elsewhere.
If you want any more information, please ask - I have to telephone them on Monday and could inquire for you...

 

[trophywench]

Could just be Glos, haven't seen or heard of it in Cov/Warwick.

 

[Lucyr]

The NHS app is used differently by different GP surgeries.
Some do not use it for prescriptions.
I guess it’s another part of the postcode lottery.

John has already said their GP surgery uses both systmonline and the nhs app for prescriptions

 

[JimG]

I can access my GP records via the NHS App if I want to look at documents that are too small for me to see unless I enlarge them and cannot see the full width of the page and so I use Systemonline for preference. I do need the App for hospital appointments although not all hospitals (or at least the different departments in some of the hospitals) use the App for their appointments. I should add that appointments are for issues beyond diabetes related matters.

 

[trophywench]

Well I have the NHS App on my phone and my laptop so if it's a letter I want to read, I deliberately choose to open the App on my laptop, unless it's a quick glance to check the date/time of an appt - eg my DNS is due to ring me next Thursday morning 'from 1020' so I'll deliberately not arrange to do something else, unless I can't help it cos something unexpected happens.

 

[trophywench]

other than the NHS App the only health website I often need to use is called Swiftqueue which our lot of the NHS use for us to book appts for blood tests, now most local GP surgeries no longer do them in house.

 

[goodybags]

NHS app is easy to access on my phone where I see blood tests results & used to see medical records in there but not at the moment
Systemonline is where I order my repeat prescriptions, pre covid I used to book GP appointments through Systemonline
the Practice has its own website where GP appointments and admin issues are now requested at,
blood tests (if I can’t get one at my GP surgery) or if needed at the Hospital are booked online through Swiftqueue

 

[John Gray]

Could just be Glos, haven't seen or heard of it in Cov/Warwick.

See your messages, o Wench!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

so aim for areas of compatibility and interoperability.

Absolutely!

The NHS systems are infamously archaic and curmudgeonly, but any attempts at providing One System To Rule Them All have always been disastrously expensive, flawed, late, and not fit for their intended purpose.

Something so large, sprawling, and complex as the NHS seems to defy the creation of a single system. A modular series of compatible and interoperable systems which could evolve and grow as the situation changes feels like the only viable option really? The problem with the current systems is that they don’t or can’t talk to each other. There’s no open-source style architecture to knit them together

I moved from Patient Access to the NHS app when some places needed those covid things, and haven’t moved back. It’s on my phone and biometric / Face ID accessed.

Works well for me. Other stuff happens by post mostly.

 

[trophywench]

Er, not sure One System To Rule Them All was ever the Best Plan .......

 

[mashedupmatt]

I'm sure all of mine are on the NHS app (must be a lucky one I guess) as I do/can see everything on there (apart from e-consult I do through the practice website - and it is excellent from my experience)

 

[trophywench]

John - thank you for the info in the PMs - Cov is a centre of excellence re Prostate Cancer surgery being one of the UK centres chosen to take part in the worldwide evaluation of the experimental mid-op MRI scanner to check if they've removed a sufficient margin - but isn't one of the 26 apparently using that App.

 

[John Gray]

John - thank you for the info in the PMs - Cov is a centre of excellence re Prostate Cancer surgery being one of the UK centres chosen to take part in the worldwide evaluation of the experimental mid-op MRI scanner to check if they've removed a sufficient margin - but isn't one of the 26 apparently using that App.

Thank you! I get the impression that "My Medical Record" is a sort of generic platform, which individual hospital trusts can customise for their own specific requirements. My local hospital has used it for Prostate Tracking, but other trusts have probably done something quite different. I haven't had a response yet from The Team, but will let you know if it [PSA Tracking, I mean] has been copied elsewhere.
In passing, I wonder whether any other hospital's Renal Units are using Patients Know Best as an information platform?

 

[helli]

I suspect the number of application used by members of the forum is directly proportional to the number of medical issues they have.
For example, my partner has no medical issues so just has the NHS app. I have Type 1 diabetes so added the app for the retinal scans (everything else diabetes related is through the NHS app). Then I broke my arm and needed to deal with the hospital for surgery and physio so added Doctor Doctor app for appointments.

 

[John Gray]

I suspect the number of application used by members of the forum is directly proportional to the number of medical issues they have.

In that case, I expect to be well near the front!