Premises and Information Technology: Your Questions Answered

ISBN-13: 9781857752540 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 124 str.

Lyn Longridge

Opis

The Practice Manager Library presents information and advice on the extended role of the practice manager both for those with experience and increasing responsibility, and for others who are new to general practice. Its clear and unambiguous guidance is based on extensive practical experience. Health service initiatives, including the introduction of Primary Care Groups and the NHSnet, will lead to major changes in the layout, structure and computerization of practices. This essential book: * covers surgery security, insurance, and health and safety issues * identifies ways to finance expansion of premises * discusses pharmacies within surgeries, practices within superstores and one-stop health shops * advises on how best to purchase and upgrade hardware, peripherals and software * explores additional uses for practice PCs, including computerized accounts and payroll * explains the implications of joining the NHSnet, the Internet, and the millennium time-bomb The question-and-answer format allows the book to be read cover-to-cover or used as a handy reference. Practice managers, whatever their background, will find it an invaluable guide to enhancing their career, and for those considering becoming a practice manager it is a vital source of information. Other books in The Practice Manager Library Series include: Finance and Administration: your questions answered

Spis treści

Premises 1. Extending premises 2. Green-field site 3. Branch surgeries 4. Professionals– architects, surveyors, lawyers 5. Surgeries within superstores 6. Pharmacies within practices/practices within pharmacies 7. One-stop health shop 8. On-call accommodation 9. Implications for premises of the shift from secondary to primary care 10. Outreach clinics 11. Subletting to other practitioners 12. Primary Care Groups 13. Community staff 14. Nurse treatment rooms 15. Soundproof consulting rooms 16. Child health clinic 17. Car parking 18. Staff rest areas 19. Partner in charge 20. Cost rent/notional rent 21. Health centre leasing 22. Obtaining funds to build premises 23. Bank loans 24. Improvement grants 25. Private financing 26. Endowment mortgages 27. Valuations 28. Building and insurance 29. Security 30. Safeguards against violent patients 31. Fire precautions 32. Disposal of sharps 33. Health and safety issues 34. Maintenance of building 35. Caretaker/maintenance person 36. Decor/first impressions 37. Access for disabled people 38. Facilities for mothers and babies Information technology 39. Using computers effectively 40. Making best use of computers 41. Upgrading hardware 42. Reuse of upgraded computer hardware 43. PCs in consulting rooms 44. Laptops versus palmtops 45. Change to new supplier 46. Computer maintenance contracts 47. Technical support/back-up 48. IT manager 49. Training 50. Health and safety issues associated with using VDUs 51. Patient confidentiality 52. User identification and passwords 53. The Internet/Intranet 54. E-mail 55. NHSNet 56. Modems 57. Repeat prescribing 58. Prodigy– prescribing support software 59. Scanner 60. Voice-operated software 61. GP Links 62. Computerized accounts 63. Payroll 64. Appointment system 65. Electronic messaging 66. Desktop publishing 67. Use of spreadsheets 68. Word processing 69. Computer crash 70. Computer security 71. Viruses 72. Millennium time-bomb 73. Computer back-ups

O autorze

Judi Linney