GP2GP will deliver a range of benefits, including:

Improved quality and continuity of care

• The patient’s new GP will have knowledge of the patient’s current medication, drug interactions, current problems and past medical history, resulting in enhanced patient safety and more focused consultations from day one.

Improved safety

• There will be fewer transcribing errors and omissions because the need to key in information from paper records will be massively reduced.
• Allergies and Adverse Drug Reactions are flagged for review for new patients, resulting in safer prescribing of new drugs after a GP2GP patient record transfer.

Clinical time savings

• Electronic health records more likely to be available during initial consultations.
• GP2GP allows the NHS to preserve the usability of rich data accumulated in patient records, such as history of blood results for diabetics, rather than losing it every time a patient moves between practices – which means fewer requests for duplicate lab tests.

Administrative time savings

• Administrative support teams will have to spend less time processing incoming patient records due to the richness of the information available electronically.

These benefits will be increasingly realised as more and more practices are GP2GP-enabled.