Dustyn Saint is a GP in Norfolk with an interest in IT from an early age. In 2017 he and an equally enthusiastic practice IT manager began to develop a set of tools on EMIS Web to be used in his own practice. But, from little acorns mighty oaks grew. Dustyn began to focus more of his energies on optimising EMIS and sharing his tools with other practices and this eventually led to the birth of Primary Care Pathways. In this episode Dustyn describes the journey to what is now an ever-evolving set of searches, templates, protocols and documents optimised for EMIS web and available to all.

Show Notes

Dustyn’s interest in IT (58secs)

Working with EMIS Web (2min)

Making the system more useful for clinicians and patients (2mins 57secs)

GPs reaction to the changes (3mins 56secs)

Allocating Dustyn’s time (5mins 19secs)

Sharing the learning (6mins 26secs)

National interest (7mins 28secs)

The involvement of EMIS and not reinventing the wheel (8mins 50secs)

Doing it “properly” – a team of nine (9mins 45secs)

Uptake of other surgeries (10mins 56secs)

A separate limited company (11mins 21secs)

Developing the offering for practices (11mins 38secs)

The enhanced package – tailored training and support (13mins 36secs)

Feedback from practices (14mins 14secs)

Working with Primary Care Networks – new roles and metrics (15mins 49secs)

Is it critical to be on the same system? (18mins 26secs)

Advice for using IT in a network (19mins 55secs)

More information (21mins 10secs)

The website is available here

And Dustyn can be contacted at [email protected]