Summary
Care Record – Additional Information (SCR)AI
To help the
NHS to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, NHSX and NHS Digital are improving the
access that doctors, nurses and other authorised health and care professionals
have to medical records and information. This will help them to more safely
treat and advise patients who are not attending their usual GP practice or who
have called NHS 111, or who are receiving direct care in another setting. This
letter explains the temporary changes being made to GP Connect and to the
Summary Care Record (SCR) to enable this. In terms of the SCR, authorised
health and care professionals who currently have view access in other settings,
such as A&E, ambulances, or community pharmacies, will now see the
Additional Information where that is available. In line with current practice,
patients’ should be asked for their permission to view before accessing SCR
details, unless the patient is unable to give consent in an emergency.
The SCR
project involved multi-disciplinary working across a number of different
organisations, and special mention has been given nationally to Dr Paul
Atkinson and Claire Lambie from our Gloucestershire team, who provided the
impetus for this work.
GP Access
to GHNHSFT’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
Further to
our 21st April 2020 bulletin, Sunrise accounts are currently being set up to give
practices digital access to hospital admission and discharge information.
Please be aware that IT may not be able to issue access details until they have
increased the capacity of the Gloucestershire network; work on this is underway
and will be reviewed on Wednesday. Thank you for your patience - we will keep
you updated with progress. If you haven’t already requested access to Sunrise
but would like this, please send requests to the Digital Transformation Primary Care Lead. (Requests for accounts are for GPs only).
NHS App
update for repeat prescriptions
NHS Digital has added
functionality to the NHS App which allows all patients across England to choose
a pharmacy to have their repeat prescriptions sent to. This is something
patients could already do in their GP practices, pharmacies or via some GP and
pharmacy online services, but this functionality now means patients can
nominate a pharmacy no matter
which IT system their GP surgery uses and without having to leave home.