About the Summary Care Records programme
Summary Care Records (SCR) enhance the efficiency, accuracy and safety of patient care by allowing NHS staff to securely view key patient clinical information held at their GP practice.
This short elearning course covers:
- An overview of the Summary Care Records service
- How SCR works and what a patients typical SCR looks like
- What is required to access the service
- How to ensure that access to patient details using the SCR remain safe and secure
- What enriched SCR look like with Additional Information
- Video case studies to understand where SCR can be, and is, used
This single module includes an assessment that allows the user to test their knowledge against what is learnt during the course.
More information
The Summary Care Records service is a free solution that gives clinical staff access to key ‘core’ information about a patient’s medications, their allergies and any adverse reactions to medication that they have, which is held within their patient record at their GP practice. The original scope of the Summary Care Record (SCR) was to provide access to key information in Urgent and Emergency Care settings. Overtime through close consultation with the Expert Advisory Committee, NHS Digital have progressed a number of proof of concepts to see whether there are benefits, both for patients and health care professionals, for other care settings to access the SCR.
Whilst there is an active proof of concept with a particular care setting, further roll out is not approved for that care setting. Any care setting outside the above are currently out of scope for SCR. However if you feel that there is a use case for a new care setting to access the SCR, please contact the SCR comms mailbox at liveservices.operations@nhs.net
For training support or questions regarding Summary Care Records (SCR) please contact liveservices.operations@nhs.net
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The following care settings are approved for national rollout to view the SCR where a legitimate relationship exists
The following care settings are approved for national rollout to view the SCR where a legitimate relationship exists
- 111
- Accident and Emergency
- Acute Assessment
- Ambulance
- Community Care
- GP Out of Hours
- GP (for temporary or non-registered patients)
- Hospital Pharmacy
- Minor Injury Units/Walk in Centres/Urgent Treatment Centres
- Scheduled Care
- Mental Health
- Scheduled Care
- Mental Health
- Health & Justice (Custody Suites)
- Hospices
- Primary Care
- Community Pharmacy
- Substance misuse
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The following care settings are currently either being discussed or there is an active proof of concept but are not approved for further rollout:
The following care settings are currently either being discussed or there is an active proof of concept but are not approved for further rollout:
- Dentistry (minor oral surgery and community dental providers)
- Domiciliary Care and Care Homes
- Optometry
- Private GP Providers
- Private hospitals and privately funded healthcare services
- Ministry of Defence (reservist patients in medical centres)
- Adult Social Care
- Providing SCR application functionality on a mobile device
- Sexual, contraceptive and reproductive healthcare services.
Open access session
The purpose of this training is to provide potential users with an overview of the Summary Care Records service and a step-by-step guide on how to use it, together with the elements that you need to be aware of to protect you and patients when accessing patient data. There are new sections relating to the enriched contents of SCR and video case studies to see where SCR can be, and is, used.
There is also an opportunity to test your understanding with our simple quiz.
Please note that if you access the content below your progress and completion of sessions will not be recorded and you will not be able to generate a record of completion. If you require evidence of learning, please register and then log in to access this programme on the elfh Hub.
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Summary Care Records
Summary Care Records (SCR) allows authorised healthcare staff to view patient information in real-time.
How to access
In order to access any elfh programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.
If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the Summary Care Records programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My elearning section.
NHS healthcare staff in England
The Summary Care Records programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Further details are available here.