THE Doctors' surgery in Great Bedwyn has digitalised the personal medical notes or patients so as to make space at the Church Street premises for an extra office.

Gone are the old paper files from the store room with the electronic copies for each patient now held in a secure store these notes at an accredited central store., and is easily retrievable by the doctor.

Converting the store room to an office and copying the records cost £5,600 with two thirds of the cost met by the Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group, and the Friends of Savernake Hospital and the Community who funded a third.

Keith Marshall, Practice Manager, said “The Practice is very grateful for the help and assistance provided by Wiltshire CCG and the Friends of Savernake Hospital and the Community. This new workspace, will enable the Practice to extend its training capacity for new GPs, and help to accommodate the ever-increasing number of attached professionals to Practices that is/will be occurring over the next few years under the NHS Forward Plan.”