Part of Child Health Interoperability (CHI) implementation guide for health visiting services
PDS change of GP
PDS Change of GP
PDS Change of GP event messages are generated by the Spine and published to the NEMS when the registered GP within a patient’s PDS record is changed. The event message contains details of the previous and current registered GP Practice for the patient.
1. Data fields available in this message
The table below lists the data fields in the PDS change of GP notification message.
| Current GP practice code |
| Commissioning organisation of current GP |
| Previous GP practice code |
| Business effective from date |
| Business effective to date |
| System effective from date |
| System effective to date |
4. What benefits can be achieved
| Do you currently? | With NEMS | Which means | What may be impacted | Possible measures before and after |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever find out a child has changed GP only when doing COVER reports? | You will receive GP changes as they happen, for all your population | The accuracy of your population cohort is improved may mean less time spent chasing information from GPs. | Time taken for reporting report accuracy. | Effort for chasing number of children who have changed GP. |
| Receive changes of GP adhoc and from multiple sources | You will receive GP changes as they happen, for all your population. | The accuracy of your time population cohort is improved. You may know about a newborn moving in earlier. | Timeliness of process for newborns (bloodspot) | Effort and timeliness to process GP change. |
Last edited: 3 October 2019 8:41 am