We use Quest as an integral element of OPAS to manage our Occupational Health and Emergency Duties Health Surveillance. Our personnel cover five offshore installations and work a variety of rotas, usually two weeks on and three weeks off. Due to our remote location and these varied attendance patterns we find the facility for sending out questionnaires / assessments to individuals email...

I had used OPAS at a previous NHS Occupational Health Unit where we also managed outside contracts for local councils and when I moved to Southend, discovered that the existing software system was unable to provide us with the type of management reports we needed to demonstrate how much activity we were generating. We considered a range of systems, but given the ability of...

Broughton is in the process of improving its Occupational Health Service. The overall strategy included a move away from the old paper medical records to a computerised system. OPAS has given the department greater control over its data, allowing us efficient access to general information and to produce useful reports. We recognised from the beginning the Occupational Health Department...

OPAS is currently used by over 20 users within the department including medical, nursing and administrative staff. Establishing electronic OH records has provided speedier retrieval of information and assists in managing our vaccination programmes more effeciently. At an administrative level we have been able to use OPAS to create all appointment letters, non-attendance letters, and vaccination...

We were one of the first major users of the web based e-OPAS product and thus had considerable input to development of the product at various levels. After some inevitable teething problems we now offer the product to all new clients we take on and currently have some 110 users. Training for new users is provided in-house and user feedback is that the system is user friendly and provides for...

I find working with OPAS very easy - both in understanding what and how to use functions. The new diary in version 5 has made a great difference for us with its ease of being able to move appointments between clinics, time and the calendar. One asset is being able to reserve an appointment time whilst awaiting confirmation. Making new clinic sessions, adding and deleting sessions is...

At Central London Community Healthcare, we provide Occupational Health to both NHS Trusts and private corporate clients. Our system currently holds records for over 50,000 clients and is used by nearly 40 clerical and medical staff over 3 sites. Running OPAS on our network allows us to access the single database at any desk at any site. We use the system as a diary for our 3 sites, to record...

Team Prevent UK have been using the OPAS system since 2006 to assist us in the record keeping and process management of our Occupational Health Business. We were first attracted to the system for its strong ability to provide KPI reports and management information for our clients. Initially it was installed and used for just one of our new customers and there was a large data transfer...

The University of Oxford Occupational Health Service use the OPAS system to schedule and record all of our departmental activity. This includes targeted Medicals, Health Surveillance and Immunisations together with the effective management of a range of referrals to our department. We have found it a significant improvement on the previous occupational health database software we were using,...

OPAS is a medical software package provided by Warwick International Computing Systems. It is designed for use in Medical Departments such as our own Occupational Health Department here at University Hospital, Galway. OPAS holds the medical records entered for all staff seen in our department, i. e. vaccination history, sickness absence records, and all manner attendances. OPAS provides many...