Myth vs Reality: Online Patient Services

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The NHS@75 report said that patients need to become active partners in their healthcare if the NHS is to survive. Do online services such as Patient Access help patients become more involved in their health? Patient.co.uk examines the myths & what facts statistics reveal.

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Myth vs Reality:

Online Patient Services

Only young IT savvy people will use online patient services

Age

19%

17%

21%

19%

24%

18-24

25-34

35-44

45-54

55+

Patients

Doctors don’t want online patient services

Health Professionals

of practices say lack of time is the biggest obstacle for implementing online patient

16%

79% support asking a healthcare professional a

question online

74% of healthcare professionals support online record viewing

for long term conditions

GP practices think their patientswon’t use online services

services

96%

It can take as littleas 3 minutes to set up

77%support the use of online services

such as appointment booking

and repeat prescriptions

9 in 10 GP practices think their patients would use

online services

of EMIS practices in England intend to enable Patient Access in the near future

60%:(

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The NHS@75 report said that patients need to become active partners in their healthcare if the NHS is to survive. Do online services such as Patient Access help patients become more involved in their health?

of GP practices recognise that patients would use

online services

Those less well off won’t use internet services

1 in 5 users are low income, social housing residents

People don’t trust online patient services - it’s a fad that will fade

The use of Patient Access has increased by 63% (Jun-Sep 2013)

https://secure

20,285

JUN2013

33,085

SEP2013

visits visits

64% of users are over 35,Almost 1 in 4 users are 55+

Online services will only catch on in big cities

Almost 1 in 6 users live in small towns or villages

Will the future

Really be online?You’ll never get patients to take a more active role in their own healthcare

of patients would like to add their own self recorded medical values to their record

of patients support viewing records online for long term conditions

71%

40%

85%

Sources:Patient.co.uk annual survey (October 2013) [22,785 respondents]Emis practice survey [625 respondents]

of healthcare will be online

It’s predicted that by 2020

Find out more about Patient Access at http://patient.co.uk/patient-access

And 23% want to find out about a healthy lifestyle

61% of Patient.co.uk visitors want

to find out about a medical condition.

Patients will always want to see their doctor face-to-face

of patients want online GP

consultations

57%