Contractual requirements came into force requiring that GP Practices should make available a statement of intent in relation to the following IT developments:
- Summary Care Record (SCR)
- GP2GP Record Transfers
- Patient online access to Their GP Record
- Data for commissioning and other secondary care purposes
Please find below details of the practices stance with regards to these points.
Summary Care Record (SCR)
NHS England require practices to enable successful automated uploads of any changes to patient’s summary information, at least on a daily basis, to the summary care record (SCR).
Having your Summary Care Record (SCR) available will help anyone treating you without your full medical record. They will have access to information about any medication you may be taking and any medications that you have a recorded allergy or sensitivity to.
Of course, if you do not want your medical records to be available in this way then you will need to let us know so that we can update your record. You can do this via the opt out form.
The practice confirms that your SCR is automatically updated on at least a daily basis to ensure that your information is as up to date as it can possibly be.
GP2GP record transfers
NHS England require practices to utilise the GP2GP facility for the transfer of patient records between practices, when a patient registers or de-registers (for full registration only).
It is very important that you are registered with a doctor at all times. If you leave your GP and register with a new GP, your medical records will be removed from your previous doctor and forwarded on to your new GP via NHS England. The NHS aims to transfer paper notes withing 2 weeks. It can take your paper records up to two weeks to reach your new surgery.
With GP to GP record transfers your electronic record can be transferred to your new practice much sooner.
The practice confirms that GP2GP transfers are already active and we send and receive patient records via this system. Only information for last practice systems is transferred and not historical information.
Patient online access to their GP record
Online access to appointments, repeat prescriptions, allergies and adverse reactions is available to our patients.
We offer the facility for booking and cancelling some appointments and also for ordering your repeat prescriptions and viewing a summary of your medical records on-line. If you do not already have a user name and password for this system – please register your interest with our reception staff.
Data for commissioning and other secondary care purposes
It is already a requirement of the Health and Social Care Act that practices must meet the reasonable data requirements of commissioners and other health and social care organisations through appropriate and safe data sharing for secondary uses, as specified in the technical specification for care data.
At our practice we have specific arrangements in place to allow patients to “opt out” of care data which allows for the removal of data from the practice. Please see the page about care data on our website.
The practice confirm these arrangements are in place and that we undertake annual training and audits to ensure that all our data is handled correctly and safely via the Information Governance Toolkit.