GP2GP User Guide

GP2GP is a project to enable the transfer of the electronic component of a general practice patient health record from the patient's previous practice to a new practice, when a patient registers with a new practice for primary health care.

Currently most of the 9,000 practices in England each deal with approximately 500 patient record transfers each year. With the current system, it can take anything between six weeks and three months to receive Lloyd George notes from the previous practice. Once received, it then has to be summarised by re-entering on the new GP clinical system, a very time-consuming task.

GP2GP transfer of records can happen within 24 hours in some instances, which lets the new GP have the benefit of the patient record from the previous practice when the patient consults in the early days.

Click here for the GP2GP 1.1a User Guide – V004 26/11/10. Details include:

• GP2GP prechecks and setting up.
• Registration and request notes using GP2GP.
• Viewing and Managing messages in Mail Manager.
• Reviewing Records in Consultation Manager.
• Receiving  GP2GP requests and sending notes.

Also click here to access Mail Manager full and quick reference guides and here to access the Personal Demographics Service V3 (PDS) user guide.