The nature of the information I am requesting information for is in relation to the Clinical Systems in use at your trust.
In terms of access to your clinical systems I would be grateful if you could provide a copy of the relevant policy or guideline that outlines access requirements and monitoring of clinical system/electronic patient record system usage.
Please see attached Acceptable Use of ICT Policy v1 0
In terms of the following staff groups please outline how access to your clinical systems is provided. By this I am referring to the processes in place to ensure when they arrive for their shift they have access to your computer systems to access (where necessary) patient observations, place electronic requests for investigations, review investigation results, access the discharge summaries, place electronic referrals:
Locum doctors (Emergency requirement)
Locum doctors (agency & bank) that are booked out of hours on an emergency basis who need access will be able to request access to the clinical systems via switchboard. Either the on call consultant or on call manager will authorise switch to issue out a temporary user account that is valid for that night.
Locum doctors (Regular locums)
Locums that are pre booked will be contacted by the bank team and issued a temporary login for the period they are booked for. If the team are unable to get through to the doctor, the doctor is still able to call the team during normal office hours (0800-1800 Mon- Fri & 0800-1600 Sat & Sun) and will be issued a temporary account for the duration of their booking.
Agency trained nurses (Emergency requirement)
Agency trained nurses (Regular agency staff)
RGN’s booked for both emergency and regular shifts are not automatically provided with I.T access or training on the Trust’s electronic systems. If an agency RGN is required to work within a block booking on an on-gong basis. I.T and full training is provided.
Agency Health care support workers/auxiliary nurse (Emergency requirement)
Agency Health care support workers/auxiliary nurse (regular agency staff)
We do not use external agency HCA’s.
For all of the above there is a team within HR workforce that manage the recruitment and access to systems for temporary staff (i.e. locums and agency). In some instances local departments will request access for staff, where this is the case the user will be given access and an expiry date set to disable access at contract end date.
Specifically in reference to Health care support workers/auxiliary nurse can you confirm which of the following tasks they are able to perform in your trust:
Perform patient observations
Yes with the correct training
Review patient observations
No but able to escalate abnormal findings
Place requests for swabs
No
Review requests for swabs
No
Place requests for blood tests
No
Review results for blood tests
No
