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Your Electronic Patient Record and the Sharing of Information
Summary Care Records: how your information is shared for immediate medical
treatment.
Summary Care Records contain details of your key health information – medications, allergies and
adverse reactions. They are accessible to authorised healthcare staff in A&E Departments throughout
England and can support better, safer prescribing of medication for patients by providing up-to-date
information on a patient’s allergies, previous adverse reactions and medications. Patient care can be
supported by healthcare staff having faster access to their medical information and patients may not be
required to repeat information to different NHS staff treating them. You will be asked for your permission
before anyone looks at your Summary Care Record except in the case of an emergency where you are
unable to give permission, e.g., if you are unconscious. If they do this, they will make a note on your
record to say why they have done so.
Your Choice
You can choose to have a Summary Care Record. If you would like one, you don't need to do anything.
It will happen automatically. If you don’t want a Summary Care Record you can opt out by signing the
opt out form and giving this into the reception.
For further information go to http://www.nhscarerecords.nhs.uk/
Local record sharing: how your information can be shared with local health services
Your records at the practice are held on a clinical system called SystmOne that allows the sharing of
electronic records across different healthcare settings and you have choices about your NHS care
records.
How is this different from the Summary Care Record?
The Summary Care Record is a national database which holds information regarding your medications,
allergies and adverse reactions. Clinicians across England involved in emergency or unscheduled care
have access to this. The Local Health Record is a locally shared record, allowing clinicians who are
involved in your care at a local level to see a shared record rather than a national scheme. It also
contains more information about your medical history.
Your Choice
 You can choose to share your electronic record with other care services by sharing out. This
controls whether your information entered at this service can be shared with other NHS services
(i.e. made shareable). If you consent to this clinicians at other services that care for you and use
SystmOne will be able to see the information recorded here. E.g. a district nurse.
 You can choose to share your electronic record with other care services by Sharing in. This
controls whether information that has been made shareable at other NHS care services can be
viewed by that care service or not (i.e shared in). If you consent to this the Health Centre will be
able to view information recorded on your patient record by other NHS services using SystmOne
e.g. hospitals and community services.
 You can choose not to share your electronic record with other care services i.e. not to share in or
out by signing the opt out form and giving this in to reception.
It will be presumed if you agree to referral to another service that you consent to us sharing the
information required for the referral.
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Care.Data Extraction Programme – how your data is shared for research
Information about you and the care you receive is shared, in a secure system, by health care staff to
support your treatment and care. NHS England would like to link information from all the different places
you receive care such as your such as your GP, hospital and community services, to help them provide a
full picture.
To do this data will soon be extracted from your medical records by the Health & Social Care Information
Centre (HSCIC). This is the first use of the new powers under the Health & Social Care Act 2012 from
providers into the HSCIC. The intention is to make increased use of clinical information with the aim of
improving health care by ensuring that data are made available to NHS Commissioners so that they can
design integrated services and to third parties for research purposes.
Your Choice
If you’re happy for your medical records to be extracted and shared, you don’t need to do anything. If you
want to opt out of this extraction process, you must let the practice know your wishes by filling in the optout form so that we can let the Health & Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) know.
There are two choices to opt out:
 Prevent your data from going to the HSCIC
 Prevent the HSCIC from passing on your data to external third parties
To opt out complete and sign the opt out form and give this into reception, coding will then be added to
your record to prevent the information being uploaded.
GP practices are obliged by law to send this information to the HSCIC for patients who have not opted
out.
For further information go to: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/records/healthrecords/Pages/caredata.aspx
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Consent/opt out form (Please circle your choices, sign and hand into reception)
Name:
Address:
DOB:
1. Do you consent to the information that is recorded about you here being made available to other
NHS care services that care for you and also use SystmOne?
Yes
No
2. Do you consent to allow this GP service to view information about you that has been recorded at
other services where you also receive care? (You must have separately consented for information
to be ‘shared out’ of those services).
Yes
No
3. Do you want to opt out of having a Summary Care Record?
Yes (XaKRy) No (XaKRx)
4. Do you want to opt out of the NHS Care System? You have two options for this.
- Do you want to opt out of information going to the Health and Social Care information Centre
from the GP Practice?
Yes (XaZ89)
No
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If your answer is no, do you want to opt out of information leaving the Health and Social Care
information Centre?
Yes (XaaVL)
No
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