Abstract
Background: SCI-Diabetes is the national information system for the care of people with diabetes in Scotland. SCI-Diabetes has a web based interface and integrates information from both primary and secondary care. SCI-Diabetes also back populates all general practice information systems. However, although SCI-Diabetes is widely used amongst secondary care healthcare professionals not much is known about the views of primary care regarding its usefulness.
Method: An online questionnaire (SurveyMonkey©) was developed to assess the usage and satisfaction of SCI-Diabetes and was sent to all practice managers in NHSG (80 sites). This was cascaded to healthcare staff involved in the care of people with diabetes.
Results: 330 primary care staff in NHSG have an account in SCI-Diabetes. 61 responses were received and these comprised 29 general practitioners (48%), 20 nurses (33%) and 12 administrators (19%). 26 respondents (49%) used SCI-Diabetes on a daily or weekly basis.51 respondents (84%) were aware that SCI-Diabetes could back populate some or all necessary QOF data. Only 15 respondents (30%) were confident that this was happening reliably all of the time. SCI-Diabetes was predominantly used for recording foot screening or accessing retinal screening information. 31 respondents (51%) had not received any training in the use of SCI-Diabetes, and 30 (57%) said they would like to receive training. One of the main barriers for use was the slow speed.
Conclusion: There is reasonable uptake of SCI-Diabetes in primary care in NHS Grampian. However, there is a need to improve training and address technical issues such as system speed and improve confidence in the data links with primary care systems.
Method: An online questionnaire (SurveyMonkey©) was developed to assess the usage and satisfaction of SCI-Diabetes and was sent to all practice managers in NHSG (80 sites). This was cascaded to healthcare staff involved in the care of people with diabetes.
Results: 330 primary care staff in NHSG have an account in SCI-Diabetes. 61 responses were received and these comprised 29 general practitioners (48%), 20 nurses (33%) and 12 administrators (19%). 26 respondents (49%) used SCI-Diabetes on a daily or weekly basis.51 respondents (84%) were aware that SCI-Diabetes could back populate some or all necessary QOF data. Only 15 respondents (30%) were confident that this was happening reliably all of the time. SCI-Diabetes was predominantly used for recording foot screening or accessing retinal screening information. 31 respondents (51%) had not received any training in the use of SCI-Diabetes, and 30 (57%) said they would like to receive training. One of the main barriers for use was the slow speed.
Conclusion: There is reasonable uptake of SCI-Diabetes in primary care in NHS Grampian. However, there is a need to improve training and address technical issues such as system speed and improve confidence in the data links with primary care systems.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 104-104 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Diabetic Medicine |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | Suppl. 1 |
| Early online date | 11 Mar 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- SCi diabetes
- primary care
- NHS Grampian
