Patient safety

Question 1

How does GP practice reduce the risks to patient safety?

Answer 1

Good communication between healthcare professionals and healthcare professionals and patients.

Increased patient inclusion of patients in their own care and patient responsibility.

Systems and computer software to set reminders and monitor prescription.

Question 2

How do you promote patient safety?

Answer 2

Providing enough information to patients so that they are empowered to take responsibility for their healthcare, plus computer systems to help ‘re-call’ patients when monitoring is due, are both complementary methods to promote patient safety in General Practice and reduce risk.

Question 3

How should GP practice keep patient records?

Answer 3

Systems and computer software

Question 4

What is inappropriate when storing patients’ data?

Answer 4

It is not appropriate for GPs to keep patient details in a desk top diary as this is not a secure method for keeping personal data, and relies on the GP reviewing the diary daily