Summary Care Record
The NHS is changing the way your health information is stored and managed.
The NHS Summary Care Record is being introduced across all GP practices in Stoke-on-Trent to help deliver better, safer care. Your Summary Care Record is an electronic record of important information about your health. It will be available to health-care staff providing your NHS care, which means if you have an accident or become ill, the clinicians treating you will have immediate access to important information about you.
To find out more view the Changes to your health records document. This information is also available in other formats and languages.
Access to your Summary Care Record will only be available to authorised NHS staff if they are involved in your treatment, and there are strict security measures in place.
NHS Stoke on Trent wrote to all registered GP patients aged 16 and over in Stoke-on-Trent in February 2010 to inform them of the introduction of the Summary Care Record. Patients do not have to do anything if they are happy to have a Summary Care Record, as it will be created automatically when their Surgery is ready.
If Patients do not wish to have their information stored in their Summary Care Record, they can complete an opt out form, which needs to be returned to their Surgery.
If you wish to find out more about having a Summary Care Record you can:
- Call the Summary Care Record Information Line (including interpreter service) on 0300 123 3020 (Every day 7.00am - 10.00pm)
- Call NHS Stoke on Trent Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) on 0800 783 2865 (Mon-Fri 8.30am- 4.30pm), text on 07734 068459 or e-mail pals@stoke.nhs.uk
- Visit the Summary Care Records Patient Information website
