Pathway to paperfree: Printing Winscribe GP letters is a thing of the past

May 24, 2019

Our Trust has recently made a huge leap on the pathway to becoming paper free by rolling out automated electronic communications to all GP practices nationwide.

What does this mean for us? The biggest change this brings about is that colleagues no longer have to print and post any Winscribe or CDA letters to GPs. Also the days of printing and posting a letter for each and every inpatient discharge to a GP is a now a thing of the past.

Now, as soon as a letter has been written on Winscribe and has been signed off, it will go through the national EDT hub and be delivered securely to the right GP practice, all done at the click of a button and supported with an audit trail.

Colleagues simply follow the same process as usual to create a letter on Winscribe and have it signed off, however, effective immediately, there is now no need to print and post the GP copy of the letter.