NHS Trusts

NHS Trusts are being challenged like never before as they are faced with increasing pressure to provide a better service with smaller budgets and fewer resources. The need for quality, timeliness and confidentiality of medical documentation is more important today than ever before.

Trusts therefore need to improve efficiency, clear backlogs of work, and find a long term solution to alleviate future backlogs. At the same time they need to save money and comply with the DPA.

So what are the strategic options available to a Trust?

Secretarial work is one of the most obvious tasks that a Trust may consider outsourcing, as it is a strategy that is cheap and straightforward to implement and will very quickly serve to improve patient care by reducing the turnaround time of dictation tasks.

Outsourcing provides an immediate solution when absenteeism or holidays occur, replacing the use of expensive agency temps and 'bank' secretaries. Administrative overheads can be cut further through natural attrition, productivity is increased and secretaries take on a larger work load as a result.

There has been much media coverage in recent months regarding lapses in data security which will undoubtedly give Senior Management cause for concern. Accuro are registered under the Data Protection Act and are a 100% UK based medical transcription specialist - we NEVER send patient data offshore. All our medical secretaries have experience as an NHS secretary and are bound by non-disclosure agreements.

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