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[Name] Lynn Woods Chief Executive, Adastra Software [Topic] Integrated Out-of-Hospital Services - Progress Under Radar Over the last 20 years, out-of-hours primary care services have passed through a dramatic process of evolution. GP Co-operatives were very successful in demonstrating the merits of collaboration. That example has been furthered by the integration of community teams, minor injuries and walk-in centres, and now by the introduction of a primary care filter in some A&Es. Following the transfer of responsibility for OoH care from GP to PCT, there are 90 "operational hub" services managing out-of-hours and urgent care across all of the UK. These schemes are now embarking on a further surge of development as hub operations are able to concentrate focus and resource to respond to PBC, long term and intermediate care, referrals management, and other sum-of-the-whole imperatives. At strategic level their potential has yet to be fully recognised, yet their engagement will be central to deployment next year of the GP summary record. In this presentation we will look at evolution of the operational hub and information flows it will attract, and distribute. [Slot] 12 [Bio] 
Lynn co-founded Adastra with software author James Berry in 1994. He had previously enjoyed a 16-year career in the Royal Air Force, leaving as a Squadron Leader in 1988. In 1992 Lynn was appointed to manage the SEADOC GP Co-operative based in Folkestone. As SEADOC expanded to eventually cover a 70-mile strip of the south coast as far west as Brighton it became evident that an operational software capability was needed to manage activity over such a wide area, and thus Adastra came into being.
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