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Hospital Pharmacy Joe is admitted to A&E one evening after taking ill with chest pain. After initial tests Joe is admitted to the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) for further investigation. The pharmacist then asks Joe for Permission To View his Summary Care Record so he can check all his medication and doses. Joe agrees and the pharmacist can see that Joe was recently prescribed another medicine that he did not mention to her. The pharmacist in the MAU asks Joe to list his current medication. Joe can tell him the names but cannot remember the doses of all the tablets he takes. The pharmacist asks Joe about this and Joe explains that he stopped taking this medication a few days ago because he began to feel better. SCR provides instant access to medicine details out of hours SCR enables the pharmacist to quickly and accurately obtain the patient’s drug history SCR enables the clinician to make an informed decision on how to treat the patient The pharmacist informs the doctor of this who tells Joe that the chest pains were likely caused by him stopping the medication. He advises Joe to restart the course of tablets and adds the missing medication to his hospital drug chart. www.hscic.gov.uk/scr [email protected] Copyright © 2015, Health and Social Care Information Centre. All rights reserved @nhsscr