Background Established over 40 years ago, Coquet Medical Practice is situated over two sites, three miles apart in North Northumberland. It has six partners and three GPs who treat just over 11,000 patients annually. Today, it is using Nuance Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2, the front end, real-time speech recognition solution, from Nuance Communications. It can dramatically reduce the amount of time GPs spend documenting care, by 30 minutes or more a day. Here, Lisa Scott, Practice Manager at Coquet Medical Practice, explains the drivers for the Practice’s speech based future. What were you doing before you started using speech recognition software? Previously, the doctors would dictate to voice recorders. The tapes would then be given to the secretaries for transcription, and the usual

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