The General Practitioner Register (GPR) is an initiative of General Practice Divisions Victoria (GPDV), funded by the Victorian Department of Human Services and the Commonwealth Department of Health & Aged Care. The GPR is a centralised repository of accurate information about general practitioners and the contact details for them at locations where they work. This is in response to a growing demand for accurate GP contact information for automated notifications and electronic discharge summaries.

Access to the GPR is limited to Victoria hospitals and divisions of general practice and it may only be used by hospitals for the transmission to GPs of information about patients. It is not available for promotional purposes or to commercial organisations.

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The GPR is designed to facilitate continuity of care through faster and more accurate communications between hospitals and GPs.

The key objectives of the project are to provide:

• readily available General practitioner information at minimum cost
• a central repository of state-wide GP information for electronic access and update
• easy access for authorised users through the Internet
• accuracy, security and integrity of data
• low on-going administrative costs.

The Agreement of Use between GPDV and participating hospitals provides guidelines for the use of the data available via the GP Register.

The Draft File Transfer Formats (12 December 2000) document defines the contents of the record types used to contain GP and practice data. The Sample Data is a sample csv file containing GP and practice data.

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