Summary Care Record
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 allows health and care professionals to have better medical information about you when they are treating you at the point of care.
All patients registered with a GP have a Summary Care Record, unless they have chosen not to have one. The information held in your SCR 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 error and improve your patient experience.
Your SCR contains basic information about allergies and medications and any reactions you have had to medicines in the past.
Some patients, including many with long term health conditions, have previously agreed to have additional information shared as part of their SCR. 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 SCR 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.
To Opt-Out of sharing information on your Summary Care Record, please complete the form below and return it to the practice either by hand, post or email.
