All English trusts switched over to E- referral service

All acute hospital trusts across England have successfully switched to electronic referrals for first outpatient appointments €“ almost a month ahead of schedule.    A total of 150 acute hospital trusts and 7,110 GP practices have made the move to sending and receiving all first outpatient appointments through the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS).   All acute trusts managed to beat the 1 October deadline to fully move to e-RS.   Trusts that have already made the move to using e-RS full-time have reported that patients on average receive appointments eight days faster, that the number of patients that fail to