What is my GP Summary Care Record and why do you need it?

Your GP Summary Care Record is an electronic record of your important medical information, created by GP records. This contains useful information around your medical background, allergies, or existing medications, which our prescribing clinicians will need to see to ensure that they have all the necessary information to prescribe safely and accurately.

Why do you need access to my Summary Care Record?

We require access to your Summary Care Record (SCR) to;

• Ensure that we can safely prescribe medication. Any medications we prescribe have the potential to interact with other medications or affect other health conditions. 
• Having access to the SCR ensures that we have all up to date information so we can avoid any potential difficulties, and that the medication we choose will not interact with any other medications you are on or may cause an impact on any other medical conditions.

What kind of information would be shared with my GP?

1. We will write to your GP after the treatment planning appointment to outline the treatment plan, what medication has been started, and what dose we expect to titrate you from and up to during the titration period. 
2. We will then write to them again if we make any changes to that plan (such as changing your medication due to side effects).
3. Finally, we will write to the GP once you are stable on medication and will provide a summary of your care during titration. We then also ask the GP to accept shared care.

For the same reason that we need access to your Summary Care Record, any medications we prescribe have the potential to interact with other medications or affect other health conditions.

If you require emergency treatment from an A&E department or in other medical situations, the NHS already have access to your summary care records and would know what is safe to prescribe or treat you with. If we do not share with the NHS what we prescribe, there is a risk that you could be treated inappropriately in an emergency situation.