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Summary Care Records (SCR) - information for patients
Your Summary Care Record is a short summary of your GP medical records. It tells other health and care staff who care for you about the medicines you take and your allergies.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) response: Additional Information is included in your SCR
To help the NHS to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Additional Information will be included in Summary Care Records for patients by default, unless you have previously told the NHS that you did not want this information to be shared.
This will enable health and care professionals to have better medical information about you when they are treating you at the point of care. This change will apply for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic only. Unless alternative arrangements have been put in place before the end of the emergency period, this change will be reversed.
All patients registered with a GP have a Summary Care Record , unless they have chosen not to have one. The information held in your Summary Care Record gives health and care professionals, away from your usual GP practice, access to information to provide you with safer care, reduce the risk of prescribing errors and improve your patient experience.
Your Summary Care Record contains basic information about allergies and medications and any reactions that you have had to medication in the past.
Some patients, including many with long term health conditions, have previously agreed to have Additional Information shared as part of their Summary Care Record. This additional information includes information about significant medical history (past and present), reasons for medications, care plan information and immunisations.
During the coronavirus pandemic period, your Summary Care Record will automatically have Additional Information included from your GP record unless you have previously told the NHS that you did not want this information to be shared.
There will also be a temporary change to include COVID-19 specific codes in relation to suspected, confirmed, Shielded Patient List and other COVID-19 related information within the Additional Information.
By including this additional Information in your SCR, health and care staff can give you better care if you need health care away from your usual GP practice:
- in an emergency
- when you're on holiday
- when your surgery is closed
- at out-patient clinics
- when you visit a pharmacy
Additional Information is included on your SCR
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic we are temporarily removing the requirement to have explicit consent to share the SCR Additional Information. This change of requirement will be reviewed when the pandemic is over.
You can be reassured that if you have previously opted-out of having a Summary Care Record or have expressly declined to share the Additional Information in your Summary Care Record, your preference will continue to be respected and applied.
Additional Information will include extra information from your GP record, including:
- health problems like dementia or diabetes
- details of your carer
- your treatment preferences
- communication needs, for example if you have hearing difficulties or need an interpreter
This will help medical staff care for you properly, and respect your choices, when you need care away from your GP practice. This is because having more information on your SCR means they will have a better understanding of your needs and preferences.
When you are treated away from your usual doctor's surgery, the health care staff there can't see your GP medical records. Looking at your SCR can speed up your care and make sure you are given the right medicines and treatment.
The only people who might see your Summary Care Record are registered and regulated healthcare professionals, for example doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists and staff working under their direct supervision. Your Summary Care record will only be accessed so a healthcare professional can give you individual care. Staff working for organisations that do not provide direct care are not able to view your Summary Care Record.
Before accessing a Summary Care Record healthcare staff will always ask your permission to view it, unless it is a medical emergency and you are unable to give permission.
Protecting your SCR information
Staff will ask your permission to view your SCR (except in an emergency where you are unconscious, for example) and only staff with the right levels of security clearance can access the system, so your information is secure. You can ask an organisation to show you a record of who has looked at your SCR - this is called a Subject Access Request.
Find out how to make a subject access request.
The purpose of SCR is to improve the care that you receive, however, if you don't want to have an SCR you have the option to opt out. If this is your preference please inform your GP or fill in an SCR patient consent preferences form and return it to your GP practice.
Regardless of your past decisions about your Summary Care Record consent preferences, you can change your mind at any time. You can choose any of the following options:
- To have a Summary Care Record with Additional Information shared. This means that any authorised, registered and regulated health and care professionals will be able to see a enriched Summary Care Record if they need to provide you with direct care.
- To have a Summary Care Record with core information only. This means that any authorised, registered and regulated health and care professionals will be able to see information about allergies and medications only in your Summary Care Record if they need to provide you with direct care.
- To opt-out of having a Summary Care Record altogether. This means that you do not want any information shared with other authorised, registered and regulated health and care professionals involved in your direct care, including in an emergency.
To make these changes, you should inform your GP practice or complete the SCR patient consent preferences form and return it to your GP practice.
More information on your health records
Read more about your medical records.
More about SCR
Summary Care Records (SCR) are an electronic record of important patient information, created from GP medical records. They can be seen and used by authorised staff in other areas of the health and care system involved in the patient's direct care.
With this in mind, the following settings and use cases are not in scope for SCR viewing and will not be approved for rollout for:
- research purposes, including clinical trials
- police and other government departments
- non-clinical cosmetics
The PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC trials
Two exceptions have been agreed for accessing the SCR to ensure timely prescribing and safe patient care by clinical staff working within the PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC. These are both urgent public health COVID-19 clinical trials.
The PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC trials seek to identify treatments that, if used early in the course of a coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, will reduce the duration of symptoms, prevent the need to admit people to hospital and reduce deaths.
SCR access has been assessed as essential to ensure individuals are safely brought onto the trial within the very restrictive timeframe of five days since symptom onset. This access enables vital safety checks to be undertaken with the permission of the participants.
Access is sought only for those people who have been screened as eligible to be part of the trial, and who have already signed informed consent for participation.
An urgent patient and public health need for access to specific information contained within the SCR has therefore been demonstrated.
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Summary Care Records
A Summary Care Record is a way of telling health and care staff important information about a person.
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It tells staff caring for someone about their medicines and allergies. This means they can look after the person if they are not at their usual doctor’s surgery.
For people with a learning disability, autism or both a doctor might ask if they can add some additional information to the summary care record. This will mean if a person needs treatment by other services like emergency or urgent care they will have more information about them.
More information about the Summary Care Record, including an easy read leaflet, is available on the NHS Digital website.
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You can help people with a learning disability by asking if you can add additional information to their summary care record.
Any information from the person’s GP record which could help staff support the person better will be automatically added. This could be things like how they want to be communicated with or any reasonable adjustments that need to be made.
To make sure other NHS services can access this information you need to opt in to adding additional information to the Summary Care Record. There is a question on the annual health check national template to encourage more people to agree to having additional information added to their Summary Care Record.
More information for GPs about using summary care records to make more information available in care settings is available on the NHS Digital website .
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How summary care records can improve patient safety
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- DOI: 10.7748/en.23.1.20.s27
Summary care records (SCRs), which have been created for more than 53 million people in England, contain clinical information from patients' GP electronic records and can be accessed by authorised healthcare workers in other settings. The information is available for viewing at any time day or night, anywhere in England, as long as strict information governance processes that protect patients' confidentiality are followed. As this article explains, enabling SCR viewing in an organisation is straightforward and requires no major capital funding. Early findings indicate that access to information in SCRs increases patient safety, improves the quality and effectiveness of care, and can save healthcare staff and their organisations time and money.
Keywords: Summary care records; confidentiality; electronic care records; electronic information sharing; patient safety; quality.
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Summary Care Records (SCR)
Your Summary Care Record is a short summary of your GP medical records. It tells other health and care staff who care for you about the medicines you take and your allergies.
Please note that these records are NOT CONNECTED with the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) single database care data project, and will be used ONLY for the purpose of enabling informed care to be supplied directly to you as an individual.
Your patient record is held securely and confidentially in the electronic system at your GP practice. If you require treatment in another NHS healthcare setting such as an emergency department or minor injury unit, those treating you would be better able to give you the appropriate care if some of the information from the GP practice were available to them.
This information can now be shared electronically via the Summary Care Record (used nationally across England) and the Oxfordshire Care Summary (used locally across Oxfordshire)
In both cases, the information will be used only by authorised health care professionals directly involved in your care. Your permission will be asked before the information is accessed, unless the clinician is unable to ask you and there is a clinical reason for access.
A parent or guardian can request to opt out children under 16 but ultimately it is the GP’s decision whether to create the records or not, because of their duty of care to the child. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 16 and feel that they are able to understand, then you should make this information available to them.
If you would rather opt out of either or both of the records please fill in a form at reception and we will put an entry on your record that will prevent your information from being shared.
Oxfordshire Care Summary
Clinicians from across Oxfordshire have able to access the Oxfordshire Care Summary. The Oxfordshire Care Summary is a single electronic view of specific, up to date, clinical information from your GP record and other records which may be kept to support your care in NHS organisations in Oxfordshire.
If you have an Oxfordshire Care Summary, clinicians will be able to check medical details that are held by your GP. These will include any significant diagnoses you may have, and what medication you take, or have recently. They will also be able to check on what tests your GP has carried out. They will not be able to see information about conversations you have had with your GP or information on sensitive subjects such as sexual health.
They will also be able to see information about treatment that you have received at the Horton or John Radcliffe Hospitals, attendances at Minor Injury Units and GP Out of Hour services, and some documents, such as, care plans.
The information will be used to ensure you get the safest treatment as quickly as possible.
Further information on the Oxfordshire Care Summary can be found here .
Summary Care Records
Today, records are kept in all the places where you receive care. These places can usually only share information from your records by letter, email, fax or phone. At times, this can slow down treatment and sometimes make it hard to access information.
Summary Care Records are being introduced to improve the safety and quality of patient care. Because the Summary Care Record is an electronic record, it will give healthcare staff faster, easier access to essential information about you, and help to give you safe treatment during an emergency or when your GP surgery is closed.
For example, a person who lives in London is on holiday in Brighton. One evening, they’re knocked unconscious in a car accident and taken to an accident and emergency (A&E) department. Under the current system of storing health records, it would be difficult for A&E staff to find out whether there are any important factors to consider when treating the person (such as any serious allergies to medications), especially as their GP surgery is likely to be closed. If healthcare staff cannot get the relevant health information quickly, some patients may be at risk.
A Summary Care Record is an electronic record that’s stored at a central location. As the name suggests, the record will not contain detailed information about your medical history, but will only contain important health information, such as:
- whether you’re taking any prescription medication
- whether you have any allergies
- whether you’ve previously had a bad reaction to any medication
Recently a new option has been made available and patients can now opt in to a more extensive Summary Care Record; to include significant problems and procedures, immunisations and End of Life care.
Access to your Summary Care Record will be strictly controlled. The only people who can see the information will be healthcare staff directly involved in your care who have a special smartcard and access number (like a chip-and-pin credit card).
Healthcare staff will ask your permission every time they need to look at your Summary Care Record. If they cannot ask you, e.g. because you’re unconscious, healthcare staff may look at your record without asking you. If they have to do this, they will make a note on your record.
Further information on the Summary Care Records can be found here .
Confidential information from your medical records can be used by the NHS to improve the services offered so we can provide the best possible care for everyone.
This information along with your postcode and NHS number (but not your name), are sent to a secure system where it can be linked with other health information.
This allows those planning NHS services or carrying out medical research to use information from different parts of the NHS in a way which does not identify you.
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Summary Care Records (SCR)
Your Summary Care Record is a short summary of your GP medical records. It tells other health and care staff who care for you about the medicines you take and your allergies.
This will enable health and care professionals to have better medical information about you when they are treating you at the point of care. This change will apply for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic only. Unless alternative arrangements have been put in place before the end of the emergency period, this change will be reversed.
All patients registered with a GP have a Summary Care Record , unless they have chosen not to have one. The information held in your Summary Care Record gives health and care professionals, away from your usual GP practice, access to information to provide you with safer care, reduce the risk of prescribing errors and improve your patient experience.
Your Summary Care Record contains basic information about allergies and medications and any reactions that you have had to medication in the past.
Some patients, including many with long term health conditions, have previously agreed to have additional information shared as part of their Summary Care Record. This additional information includes information about significant medical history (past and present), reasons for medications, care plan information and immunisations.
During the coronavirus pandemic period, your Summary Care Record will automatically have additional information included from your GP record unless you have previously told the NHS that you did not want this information to be shared.
There will also be a temporary change to include COVID-19 specific codes in relation to suspected, confirmed, Shielded Patient List and other COVID-19 related information within the additional information.
By including this additional information in your SCR, health and care staff can give you better care if you need health care away from your usual GP practice:
in an emergency when you're on holiday when your surgery is closed at out-patient clinics when you visit a pharmacy
Additional information is included on your SCR
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic we are temporarily removing the requirement to have explicit consent to share the SCR additional information. This change of requirement will be reviewed when the pandemic is over.
You can be reassured that if you have previously opted-out of having a Summary Care Record or have expressly declined to share the additional information in your Summary Care Record, your preference will continue to be respected and applied.
Additional information will include extra information from your GP record, including:
health problems like dementia or diabetes details of your carer your treatment preferences communication needs, for example if you have hearing difficulties or need an interpreter
This will help medical staff care for you properly, and respect your choices, when you need care away from your GP practice. This is because having more information on your SCR means they will have a better understanding of your needs and preferences.
When you are treated away from your usual doctor's surgery, the health care staff there can't see your GP medical records. Looking at your SCR can speed up your care and make sure you are given the right medicines and treatment.
The only people who might see your Summary Care Record are registered and regulated healthcare professionals, for example doctors, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists and staff working under their direct supervision. Your Summary Care record will only be accessed so a healthcare professional can give you individual care. Staff working for organisations that do not provide direct care are not able to view your Summary Care Record.
Before accessing a Summary Care Record healthcare staff will always ask your permission to view it, unless it is a medical emergency and you are unable to give permission.
Protecting your SCR information
Staff will ask your permission to view your SCR (except in an emergency where you are unconscious, for example) and only staff with the right levels of security clearance can access the system, so your information is secure. You can ask an organisation to show you a record of who has looked at your SCR - this is called a Subject Access Request.
Find out how to make a subject access request.
The purpose of SCR is to improve the care that you receive, however, if you don't want to have an SCR you have the option to opt out. If this is your preference please inform your GP or fill in an SCR opt-out form and return it to your GP practice.
Regardless of your past decisions about your Summary Care Record consent preferences, you can change your mind at any time. You can choose any of the following options:
To have a Summary Care Record with additional information shared. This means that any authorised, registered and regulated health and care professionals will be able to see a enriched Summary Care Record if they need to provide you with direct care. To have a Summary Care Record with core information only. This means that any authorised, registered and regulated health and care professionals will be able to see information about allergies and medications only in your Summary Care Record if they need to provide you with direct care. To opt-out of having a Summary Care Record altogether. This means that you do not want any information shared with other authorised, registered and regulated health and care professionals involved in your direct care, including in an emergency.
To make these changes, you should inform your GP practice or complete the SCR patient consent preferences form and return it to your GP practice.
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Your Summary Care Record allows professionals providing your care access to key information about your health, medical history and preferences when they are treating you.
Local healthcare leads advise that all patients consent to an ‘Enhanced’ Summary Care Record to include additional information.
Quicker access to key information can mean quicker and more accurate diagnosis and treatment for you.
For further information please ask a member of our practice staff.
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What is a Summary Care Record (SCR)?
Your Summary Care Record is an electronic summary of key information from your GP medical record. If you need healthcare away from your usual doctor’s surgery, your SCR will provide those looking after you with this information to help them give you better and quicker care.
This can be especially useful:
- in an emergency
- when you are on holiday
- when your surgery is closed
- at out-patient clinics
- when you visit a pharmacy
Summary Care Record - your 3 options:
You can choose how much information is shared through your Summary Care Record. You are much more likely to reap the benefits of SCR if you choose the enhanced version (option 2).
1. You can choose to have a ‘core’ Summary Care Record All patients, unless they have opted out, have a ‘core’ Summary Care Record including basic information about their current medications, allergies, and bad reactions they have had to medicines.
2. You can choose to have an ‘enhanced’ Summary Care Record This means your record will contain the ‘core’ information plus extra information that you think would be helpful for the healthcare staff who treat you. You must give your explicit consent for this.
That extra information could include:
- Information about your long term health conditions - such as asthma, diabetes, heart problems or rate medical conditions
- Your relevant medical history - clinical procedure that you have had, why you need a particular medicine, the care you are currently receiving and clinical advice to support your future care.
- Your healthcare needs and personal preferences - you may have particular communication needs, a long term condition that needs to be managed in a particular way, or you may have made legal decisions or have preferences about your care that you would like to be known.
- Immunisation information - details of previous vaccinations, such as tetanus and routing childhood jabs.
3. You can choose not to have a Summary Care Record Information from your GP record concerning your current medications, allergies and bad reactions to medicines will not be readily available to other services treating you. Fewer than 5% of patients have chosen to opt out.
For more information, or to request an enhanced Summary Care Record, please talk to the staff at your GP practice. You can change your mind about what information you share at any time.
How will having a Summary Care Record help me?
Essential details about your healthcare can be very difficult to remember, particularly when you are unwell. Having an enhanced Summary Care Record means that healthcare professionals treating you will be better informed about you, which will increase the quality of your care.
You may have already seen the benefits of having a core Summary Care Record. One common benefit is when a patient is admitted to hospital and the Clinician treating them is able to see they are allergic to a particular medication and so prescribe an alternative.
How will my information be kept safe?
Your Summary Care Record can only be viewed by authorised staff who have an NHS smart card with a chip and PIN. They must ask for your consent to view your Summary Care Record, unless you are unconscious or otherwise unable to communicate and they believe that accessing your record is in your best interest. All access to you Summary Care record is documented and audited by the Privacy Officer of the organisation to ensure it is appropriate.
An enhanced Summary Care Record is not a copy of your whole record. Sensitive information such as fertility treatments, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy termination or gender reassignment will not be included , unless you specifically ask for it to be.
To consent to an Enhanced Summary Care Record, you can collect a Consent Form from the Surgery Reception Desk. Please return your completed form to one of our Receptionists. Thank you.
FAQ's Electronic Record Sharing-Summary Care Record (SCR) 2.1 (PDF, 546KB)
Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland GPs and other healthcare organisations are putting systems in place that may use your health related information for different purposes. The main systems are listed below. You have a choice about whether your information is used in these additional systems. If you want to opt out of any of these other additional information sharing processes, or to discuss them in more detail, please ask for more details at your GP surgery.
The NHS has put the electronic Summary Care Record (SCR) in place to enable health professionals to view basic but important details relating the medicines you take, allergies you have and any medicines that make you ill. Your SCR could be particularly important in an emergency situation when you may not be able to talk directly to those caring for you. You can opt out of the SCR but you should discuss the consequences of doing so with a health professional first.
The NHS seeks to make the best use of limited resources when delivering their services to the public. One means of doing this is to identify individuals or communities at greatest risk of developing certain conditions, such as diabetes. This system is known as risk stratification and will involve health professionals working in different organisations looking at your health related information in order to make decisions on the best course of treatment for you.
The NHS is committed to giving patients greater control over who they share their health related information with. One way of doing this is by enabling your GP, and other health professionals, to make decisions with you regarding your consent choices using the Enhanced Data Sharing Model ( eDSM ). This will be particularly relevant to you if you access a range of different healthcare services at the same time.
You should be aware that your GP health record forms part of a wider set of information relating to your care. You will always be allowed to exercise choices about whom you want your health related information to be shared with, and these choices will be respected.
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Summary Care Record
The current Central NHS Computer System is called the Summary Care Record (SCR). It is an electronic record which contains information about the medicines you take, allergies you suffer from and any bad reactions to medicines you have had.
Why do I need a Summary Care Record?
Storing information in one place makes it easier for healthcare staff to treat you in an emergency, or when your GP practice is closed. This information could make a difference to how a doctor decides to care for you, for example, which medicines they choose to prescribe for you.
You may need to be treated by health and care professionals that do not know your medical history. Essential details about your healthcare can be difficult to remember, particularly when you are unwell or have complex care needs. Having an SCR means that when you need healthcare you can be helped to recall vital information.
SCRs can help the staff involved in your care make better and safer decisions about how best to treat you.
You can choose to have additional information included in your SCR, which can enhance the care you receive. This information includes:
- Your illnesses and health problems.
- Operations and vaccinations you have had in the past.
- How you would like to be treated – such as where you would prefer to receive care.
- What support you might need.
- Who should be contacted for more information about you.
Who can see it?
Only healthcare staff involved in your care can see your Summary Care Record.
How do I know if I have one?
If you are registered with a GP practice in England you will have a Summary Care Record (SCR), unless you have previously chosen not to have one. Over half of the population of England now have a Summary Care Record. You can find out whether Summary Care Records have come to your area by looking at our interactive map or by asking your GP. It includes important information about your health:
- Medicines you are taking.
- Allergies you suffer from.
- Any bad reactions to medicines.
Do I have to have one?
No, it is not compulsory. If you choose to opt-out of the scheme, then you will need to complete our online Summary Care Record Opt Out form .
For further information visit the NHS Care Records website .
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