Summary Care Record

Your patient record will be held securely and confidentially on our electronic system. 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 appropriate care if some of the information from the GP practice were available to them.

This information is your summary care record (SCR), below is a list of where that data will be shared, the source of the information and the content contained within your record.

Summary Care Record

Shared

  • Across England
  • Across health care settings, including urgent care, community care and outpatient departments
  • With GPs, and with clinicians employed by any NHS Trust or organisation involved in your care across England

Information Source

  • GP record

Content

  • Your current medications
  • Any allergies you have
  • Any bad reactions you have had to medicines
  • Additional information can be added (upon request to your GP practice), which includes:
    • Significant problems (past and present)
    • Significant procedures (past and present)
    • Anticipatory care information
    • End of life care information – as per EOLC dataset ISB 1580
    • Immunisations

Gloucestershire shared health and social care information (JUYI/EMIS Shared)

Shared

  • Across Gloucestershire
  • Across health care settings (including urgent care, community care and outpatient departments)
  • With GP’s and NHS clinicians employed by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucestershire care services NHS Trust (community hospitals and community-based services, such as district nursing), 2gether NHS Foundation Trust (mental health services), South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
  • With Gloucestershire County Council social care

Information Source

  • GP record
  • Other medical records held by different NHS organisations in Gloucestershire
  • Gloucestershire County Council social care

Content

  • Your current medications
  • Any allergies you have
  • Any bad reactions you have had to medicines
  • Your medical history and diagnoses
  • Test results and X-ray reports
  • Your vaccination history
  • General health readings such as blood pressure
  • Your appointments, hospital admissions, GP out-of-hours attendances and ambulance calls
  • Care/management plans
  • Correspondence such as referral letters and discharge summaries

In all cases, the information will only be used by authorised healthcare professionals directly involved in your care. These records are not connected with the health and social care information centre care data project and will be used only for the purpose of enabling informed care to be supplied directly to you as an individual.

Parents, guardians or someone with power of attorney can ask for people in their care to be opted out, but ultimately it is the GP’s decision whether to share information, or not, because of their duty of care.

If you are caring for someone and feel that they are able to understand, then you should make the information about the different methods of sharing available to them.