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NHS doctors and nurses spend up to 10 hours a week dealing with bureaucracy - a third of which is unneccesary, a Government review has found.
The report suggests that more than ?1 billion a year is spent by the health service collecting and checking data, with 70 per cent of staff saying the burden of paperwork has risen in the past five years.
The review by the NHS Confederation, which represents health service managers, said duplication and poor use of technology meant staff were wasting their time completing bureaucractic processes.
Clinical staff interviewed for the review said they spent up to 10 hours a week collecting or checking data - more than a quarter of their average week - and that more than one third of the work was neither useful nor relevant to patient care.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ors-spend-10-hours-a-week-on-bureaucracy.html
The report suggests that more than ?1 billion a year is spent by the health service collecting and checking data, with 70 per cent of staff saying the burden of paperwork has risen in the past five years.
The review by the NHS Confederation, which represents health service managers, said duplication and poor use of technology meant staff were wasting their time completing bureaucractic processes.
Clinical staff interviewed for the review said they spent up to 10 hours a week collecting or checking data - more than a quarter of their average week - and that more than one third of the work was neither useful nor relevant to patient care.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ors-spend-10-hours-a-week-on-bureaucracy.html