With the upcoming changes to the GMS1 form and the new requirement for GP practices to offer the ‘Register for a GP Surgery’ service by 31 October 2024, now is the perfect time to consider automating your GP registration process.
In my recent video, I discuss why patient registration is a prime candidate for automation. Here’s a summary of the key points I covered:
•Safe and Efficient: The registration process is purely administrative. Staff often spend 10 to 20 minutes manually transferring patient data, which is time-consuming and doesn’t involve decision-making. Automation can reduce this time while maintaining accuracy and safety.
•Cost Breakdown: For each registration, practices spend approximately £2.67 for a smooth process (around 10 minutes) and up to £5.33 for more time-consuming registrations (around 20 minutes). With 100 registrations a month, that adds up to anywhere from £267 to £533 in staff time costs.
•Automation Benefits: Automation systems, such as those provided by HealthTech1, can automate 95% of registrations, reducing your total costs to £260 per month while ensuring accuracy. Even though this may not directly save money unless a vacancy is being held, it frees up valuable staff time. Imagine what you could do with an additional 16 hours per month!
•Could your team use that time to enhance care navigation, helping patients find the right service without necessarily needing to see a clinician?
•Perhaps it could be directed towards improving document workflows, further easing the load on your clinical team?
•Or maybe that time could be invested in management support, freeing up higher-level staff for strategic work?
•Enhanced Service Features: HealthTech1’s service goes beyond basic automation. It verifies whether patients are in your practice area or country and supports first-time NHS registrations. Plus, their registration form helps practices meet QoF targets by prompting smoking cessation advice and identifying vulnerable groups, such as carers and veterans, upfront.
Try It Out: 100 Free Registrations
To explore the potential of automating your registration process, I highly recommend heading over to ht1.epcx.co.uk. You can sign up for a two-week free trial and get 100 free registrations (despite what I accidentally said in the video, it’s not 200 but is worth £200!). This trial will allow you to see the benefits first-hand and decide whether this is the right fit for your practice.
Automation offers an exciting opportunity to save time, enhance efficiency, and free up your staff for higher-value tasks. With the coming changes to patient registration, there’s no better time to make this switch.
Watch the full video here and explore how automation could transform your practice’s workflow.