GPES has the potential to improve patient care by collecting and coordinating vital information from across general practice clinical systems in England. By making this information available to the NHS and other approved organisations, GPES can support a diverse range of improvements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses.

Potential patient benefits could include:

• improving the screening of patients for serious conditions and therefore enabling treatments to be delivered quicker and more efficiently
• better patient safety
• better visibility of major public health issues (e.g. enabling the NHS to monitor flu outbreaks and deliver services where they are needed); and
• a greater insight into the uptake of vital medicines.

Want to know more about how GPES can make a difference?

Read our testimonials to learn more about how some potential GPES customers feel about the service:

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

“General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) could help NICE overcome some of the current limitations of data provision. This would significantly enhance the ability of NICE to provide tools to support the implementation of NICE guidance and evaluate the use of guidance produced.”

National Learning and Reporting Service (NRLS)

“GPES may help fill the gap in knowledge about patient safety incidents. This kind of information is vital in helping identify risk and to take action in primary care.”