THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF A DIGITAL DICTATION AND VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM

for clinicians and will be scalable for future expansion. Digital dictation and voice recognition services are currently reliant on the typing, printing and posting of clinical letters; this has led to backlogs of letters for typing and subsequent approval by clinicians, which has a knock-on effect

of delays in issuing letters to GPs. The Contracting Authority intends to procure a system that will enable the timely dictation of clinical letters with voice recognition. Integration with Healthlink is essential to ensure that correspond