Premises and Information Technology: Your Questions Answered

Content: Premises: Extending premises * Green-field site * Branch surgeries * Professionals - architects, surveyors, lawyers * Surgeries within superstores * Pharmacies within practices * One stop health shop * On-call accommodation * Implications for premises of shift from secondary to primary care * Outreach clinics * Sub-letting to other practitioners * primary Care Groups * Community staff * Nurse treatment rooms * Child Health Clinic * Car parking * Staff rest areas * Partner in charge * Cost rent/notional rent * Health Centre leasing * Obtaining funds to build premises * Bank loans * Improvement grants * Private financing * Endowment Mortgages * Valuations * Building and contents insurance * Security * Safeguards against violent patients * Fire precautions * Disposal of Sharps * Health and Safety issues * Maintenance of building * Caretaker/maintenance person * Decor/first impressions * Access for disabled people * Facilities for mothers and babies: Information Technology: Using computers effectively * Making best use of computers * up-grading hardware * Re-use of upgraded computer hardware * PCs in consulting rooms * Laptops versus palmtops * Change to a new supplier * Computer maintenance contracts * Technical support/back up * IT Manager * Training * Health and Safety issues with using VDUs * Patient confidentiality * User identification and passwords * The Internet/Intranet * E-Mail * NHS Net * Modems * Repeat prescribing * Prodigy - prescribing supportc software * Scanner * Voice-operated software * GP Links * Computerized accounts * Payroll * Appointment system * Electronic messaging * Desktop publishing * Use of spreadsheets * Word processing * Computer crash * Computer security * Viruses * Millennium time-bomb * Computer back ups *