The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

Summary Care Record

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68.—(1) A contractor must, in any case where there is a change to the information included in a patient’s medical record, enable the automated upload of summary information to the Summary Care Record, at least on a daily basis, using approved systems provided to it by the Board.

(2) In this regulation—

“Summary Care Record” means the system approved by the Board for the automated uploading, storing and displaying of patient data relating to medications, allergies, adverse reactions and, where agreed with the contractor and subject to the patient’s consent, any other data taken from the patient’s electronic record; and

“summary information” means items of patient data that comprise the Summary Care Record.