Sharing Your Medical Record

Increasingly, patient medical data is shared e.g. between GP surgeries and District Nursing, in order to give clinicians access to the most up to date information when attending patients.

The systems we operate require that any sharing of medical information is consented to by patients beforehand. Patients must consent to sharing of the data held by a health provider out to other health providers and must also consent to which of the other providers can access their data.

e.g. it may be necessary to share data held in GP practices with district nurses but the local podiatry department would not need to see it to undertake their work. In this case, patients would allow the surgery to share their data, they would allow the district nurses to access it but they would not allow access by the podiatry department. In this way access to patient data is under patients' control and can be shared on a 'need to know' basis.

Emergency Care Summary

There is a Central NHS Computer System called the Emergency Care Summary (ECS). The Emergency Care Summary is meant to help emergency doctors and nurses help you when you contact them when the surgery is closed. It will contain information on your medications and allergies.

Your information will be extracted from practices such as ours and held securely on central NHS databases.   

As with all systems there are pros and cons to think about. When you speak to an emergency doctor you might overlook something that is important and if they have access to your medical record it might avoid mistakes or problems, although even then, you should be asked to give your consent each time a member of NHS Staff wishes to access your record, unless you are medically unable to do so.

On the other hand, you may have strong views about sharing your personal information and wish to keep your information at the level of this practice. If you don’t want an Emergency Care Summary to be made for you, tell your GP surgery. Don’t forget that if you do have an Emergency Care Summary, you will be asked if staff can look at it every time they need to. You don’t have to agree to this.

Do you want to see what your doctor or nurse has written about you or check your GP Electronic Health Record ?

 

Well done. You are a couple of steps away from getting access and understanding of your GP electronic health records.

 

Unfortunately due to ongoing restrictions it is not possible to book appointments online at the moment. We hope to be able to restore this feature when things return to normal.

If you have alreday registered for online services please click HERE.

There are a number of facilities that Maple Surgery patients can access online.

  • Ordering repeat prescriptions
  • Booking appointments
  • Cancelling appointments
  • View your clinical record 

 

To take advantage of these services you will need to complete the form below. This form is only for patients aged 16 years and over. Proxy access is offered to parents of children up until their 11th birthday, please contact the surgery to request this. Online access is not available to 11-15 year olds. We will need to confirm your identity before the the service can start.

To view your clinical record you will need to complete this questionnaire EVEN IF YOU ARE ALREADY AN ONLINE USER FOR OTHER SERVICES.

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHEN BOOKING AN APPOINTMENT ONLINE IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU STATE THE NATURE OF YOUR PROBLEM. THIS IS TO ENSURE THAT YOU ARE DIRECTED TO THE MOST APPROPRIATE CLINICIAN. IF THIS IS NOT DONE YOUR APPOINTMENT MAY NOT BE CONFIRMED.

Register for Online Services

Fill in the form

Register for NHS app

The NHS app allows you to

  • View your GP electronic health record including what your doctor or nurse have written about you
  • Nominate your preferred pharmacy
  • Check your Organ Donation status
  • Set up a linked profile (proxy access)
  • Register with “Be Part of Research”
  • Choose if data from your health records is shared for research and planning purposes