Summary Care Record

Summary Care Record and Oxfordshire Care Summary – your choice

Your patient record is held securely and confidentially on the electronic system at your GP practice. 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 can now be shared electronically via:

The Summary Care Record: used nationally across England
The Oxfordshire Care Summary: used locally across Oxfordshire

In both cases, the information will be used only by authorised health care professionals directly involved in your care. Your permission will be asked before the information is accessed, unless the clinician is unable to ask you and there is a clinical reason for access.

If you would like to opt out, please fill in our opt out form.

A parent or guardian can request to opt out children under 16 but ultimately it is the GP’s decision whether to create the records or not, because of their duty of care to the child. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 16 and feel that they are able to understand, then you should make this information available to them.

For more details of both records, please see below.

Differences between the Oxfordshire Care Summary and the Summary Care Record

Oxfordshire Care Summary

Shared:

Across Oxfordshire
Across health care settings, including urgent care, community care and outpatient departments
With GPs, and with clinicians employed by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals Trust

Information source:

GP record
Other medical records held by different NHS organisations in Oxfordshire

Content

Your current medications
Any allergies you have
Any bad reactions you have has 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

For more information visit: www.oxfordshireccg.nhs.uk