GPASS (General Practice Administration System for Scotland)

[pacharanero (Marcus Baw)]

I’ve started a stub that collates the ‘Historical Requirements Of A GP System’ information we have

History of GP System Requirements (stub)

Starting in the early 1980s, as GP computing was starting to become more mainstream, there was an early recognition of the need for some standardisation of the features, safety mechanisms, and requirements of a GP System. England Below are some of the historical requirements documents for GP systems in England. Requirements of a GP Record System (1980) From RCGP (1980) Occasional Paper 13. Computers In Primary Care, Report of the [RCGP] Computer Working Party.[1] Link: Computers in primary ca…

@ian

your question is very good one going forward “What should a GP system cover in 2026→”?

This is a separate wiki I guess, but definitely instructive to see what existing requirements were, and also how they have changed over time, as the market has become more driven by governmental priorities and less by clinical ones.

@mayfield.g.kev

listing differences between a UK GP system now and what I’m often hearing, it might make a open source project.

THIS is the info we should be collating!