#Nhs letter of intent example update#
#Nhs letter of intent example full#

If you do not already have a user name and password for this system – please register your interest with our reception staff. We currently offer the facility for booking and cancelling appointments and also for ordering your repeat prescriptions and viewing a summary of your medical records on-line. NHS England require practices to promote and offer the facility to enable patients online access to appointments, prescriptions, allergies and adverse reactions or have published plans in place to achieve this by 31st of March 2015. The practice confirms that GP to GP transfers are already active and we send and receive patient records via this system. With GP to GP record transfers your electronic record is transferred to your new practice much sooner. It can take your paper records up to two weeks to reach your new surgery. If you leave your GP and register with a new GP, your medical records will be removed from your previous doctor and forwarded on to your new GP via NHS England. It is very important that you are registered with a doctor at all times. NHS England require practices to utilise the GP2GP facility for the transfer of patient records between practices, when a patient registers or de-registers (not for temporary registration). The practice confirms that your SCR is automatically updated on at least a daily basis to ensure that your information is as up to date as it can possibly be.

#Nhs letter of intent example update#

Of course, if you do not want your medical records to be available in this way then you will need to let us know so that we can update your record. They will have access to information about any medication you may be taking and any drugs that you have a recorded allergy or sensitivity to.

#Nhs letter of intent example full#

Having your Summary Care Record (SCR) available will help anyone treating you without your full medical record. NHS England require practices to enable successful automated uploads of any changes to patient’s summary information, at least on a daily basis, to the summary care record (SCR) or have published plans in place to achieve this by 31st of March 2015. Please find below details of the practices stance with regards to these points. The same contractual obligations require that we have a statement of intent regarding these developments in place and publicised by 30 September 2014. Data for commissioning and other secondary care purposes.Patient Online Access to Their GP Record.New contractual requirements came into force from 1 April 2014 requiring that GP Practices should make available a statement of intent in relation to the following IT developments: