TPP announces 1,000th SystmOne practice

Healthcare IT system supplier TPP has announced 1,000 GP practices are now live with SystmOne GP.

The company said Broadhurst Street Surgery in Leicester has become the 1,000th SystmOne practice, almost a decade after the first GP practice went live with SystmOne.

TPP said it has another 150 GP practices in deployment, meaning that one in seven practices in England is already using or moving to SystmOne.

This month also marks 11 years of TPP's existence. Dr John Parry, TPP’s clinical director and a GP in Keighley, West Yorkshire, said his practice was the first in the country to use SystmOne.

He added: “The first ten years has been a fascinating time. We have moved from a ‘new entrant’ to the market to an established clinical system supplier. ”

The vast majority of the systems implemented by TPP have been under local service provider contracts in the North, Midlands and East of England, firstly under LSP Accenture and then CSC.

Andrew Spence, CSC’s director of healthcare strategy, told E-Health Insider that the company had a “huge presence in primary care” with SystmOne rolled out into GP practices, community care, child health and prisons.

He added: ““SystmOne is probably the most widely deployed product under the national programme, and it barely gets a mention.”

Earlier this summer, TPP announced that its new products included modules covering acute hospitals, community hospitals, mental health, social services and out-of-hours care.

Dr Parry added: “The pressures on health communities over the next few years through financial constraints will fuel the need for smarter and more efficient ways of working.

"Greater integration of primary and secondary care will support this, so the recent announcement about our secondary care products is very welcome."

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