The standard of record keeping in health services in
general and mental health services in particular have been criticized public
bodies and official requires into Deficiencies of Care Audit Commission (2004)
in 1995, the audit commission published the result of its study of records
keeping in national health services (NHS) hospital in England, it found the
standard to be poor and strongly recommended that corrective action be taken,
the key issues to be addressed were lack of
general and mental health services in particular have been criticized public
bodies and official requires into Deficiencies of Care Audit Commission (2004)
in 1995, the audit commission published the result of its study of records
keeping in national health services (NHS) hospital in England, it found the
standard to be poor and strongly recommended that corrective action be taken,
the key issues to be addressed were lack of
awareness of the importance of good
records keeping, lack of information – sharing between professions and work
units, the tendency to treat records as personal rather than cooperate assess,
lack of cooperation between paper and electronic information strategies, ombudsman,
cities that poor records keeping can lead to patient care being adversely
affected through, an increases risk of medication or other treatment being
duplicated or omitted, communication problems between staff, both nursing and
medical a failure to focus attention in early signs of change in patient
conditions and failure to place in record significant observation and
conclusions.
