Summary Care RecordFAQs

You can record patient preference and see a preview of a patient's National Summary before your Initial Upload.

Face to Face consultations are no longer a requirement for updating and sending a SCR. Core and additional information is automatically added to the National Summary during data entry if you have the correct RBAC roles to do this.

SeeRBAC Roles used in SCR for details.

The ability to send or maintain a National Summary or to change a patients’ preference or consent is determined many factors. Look through the following list and check that:

  • The practice is enabled for National Summary.
  • The practice is fully RBAC enabled.
  • The patient qualifies for a structured summary. To qualify the patient should:
    • Be permanently registered with the practice,
    • Have a new style NHS number and
    • Be synchronised on the Personal Demographics Service (PDS)
  • You have user rights to view the patients record.

All patients under 16 years of age have a SCR by default.

Note - All patients under 16 have a SCRon the NHS Spine. A parent/guardian can request an SCR not to be shared or stored but the final decision lies with the GP.

When the patient is 15 years and 9 months, they are sent a letter detailing the concept of the SCR and informing them of the dissent options. They have 16 weeks to think about this. If the patient does nothing, consent is assumed and a copy of the SCR remains on the NHS Spine. After the patient turns 16 the SCR process and consensual rights are identical to that of other patients.

Anybody who has the user rights in Vision 3 to add data to Consultation Manager and has the relevant RBAC roles and functions added to their Smartcard can update a patient's National Summary.

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