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Thursday 1 February 2018
Communication from Hospital at Transfer (CHaT) is Mater’s new discharge summary system.
The new system has been designed to provide our patients and GPs with the information they need to safely transition from hospital care.
The new system was designed by clinicians, for clinicians with and will align us with new national guidelines for discharge summaries and will also be a reliable way to send our discharge summaries to GPs.
Dr Rebecca Dunn (MBBS FRACGP) from Women’s Wellbeing has played an active role in ensuring a GP perspective was maintained through the design of Mater’s new discharge summary.
In addition, Mater has also leveraged the opinions and feedback obtained through our General Practice Liaison Program, as well as the findings from the discharge summary survey recently distributed conducted by Queensland Health.
The CHaT system will have:
You may notice these changes when Mater implements CHaT from February 2018.
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