Summary Care Record
The Summary Care Record (SCR) is designed to improve the level of care patients can receive, especially in an emergency situation. The SCR will enable NHS clinicians to access basic information regarding the patient's current medication and any allergies. For example, if a patient was to be taken ill whilst on holiday in the UK, a Doctor would be able to view details of their current medication and any allergies, ensuring that suitable and appropriate treatment is administered. There is now also the option of having an Enhanced Summary Care record. This will include the information above, as well as information on your illnesses and health problems, operations and vaccinations you have had in the past, how you would like to be treated (such as where you would prefer to receive care), what support you might need and who should be contacted for more information about you.
For more information:
Patient Information Leaflet
Ask a receptionist at the surgery or visit; https://digital.nhs.uk/services/summary-care-records-scr
We will create an Enhanced Summary Care Record for patients automatically. All patients have the choice to ‘opt out’ of this system, ensuring that this information is not available anywhere else. Obviously, this would mean that healthcare professionals cannot share information about patient's medications and allergies should an emergency situation arise.
If you wish to opt out of the Summary Care Record scheme, then you will need to complete a form and bring it along to the surgery.
SCR Opt out Form - to opt out of the Summary Care Record scheme.
National data opt-out
You can choose whether your confidential patient information is used for research and planning. To find out more visit nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters.
You do not need to do anything if you are happy about how your confidential patient information is used. You can change your choice at any time.
Type 1 opt-out: medical records held at your GP practice
You can tell us if you do not want your confidential patient information held in your GP medical record to be used for purposes other than your individual care. This is commonly called a type 1 opt-out. This opt-out request can only be recorded by your GP practice. Data sharing with NHS Digital began on 1 September 2021, if you had already registered a Type 1 Opt-out with your GP practice your data will not of been shared with NHS Digital. If you wish to register a Type 1 Opt-out with your GP practice to opt out of future uploads with NHS Digital, this should be done by returning the Type 1 Opt-out form for reseach and planning to our Medical Records Team.
National Data Opt-out: information held by NHS Digital
Previously you could tell your GP practice if you did not want us, NHS Digital, to share confidential patient information that was collected from across the health and care service for purposes other than your individual care. This was called a type 2 opt-out. The type 2 opt-out was replaced by the national data opt-out. Type 2 opt-outs recorded on or before 11 October 2018 have been automatically converted to national data opt-outs. You can find out more about and register a National Data Opt-out, or change your choice on nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters or by calling 0300 3035678.
Health Navigator
Data is being processed for the purpose of delivering a clinical coaching service, provided by a company called HN. This service is delivered by a specially trained nurse or healthcare professional who will work with you on a one-to-one basis to advise on the best way to manage your condition(s). We will share your contact details with HN to enable them to contact you and confirm that you would want to take part in HN’s clinical coaching. This service will help provide you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to improve your health and quality of life. HN will only use your data for the purposes of delivering their service to you. If you do not wish to take part in the service provided by HN we will continue to manage your care within the Practice. HN are required to hold data we send them in line with retention periods outlined in the Records Management code of Practice for Health and Social Care. Further information about HN and their clinical coaching service is available at https://www.hn-company.co.uk/
Heidi AI
As part of the Digital First National programme of work, GP Practices are required to record accurate data about patient interaction, especially within consultations. To assist with this administrative task, the practice is using a new technology known as Heidi AI.
The primary purposes include improving clinical documentation, aiding healthcare professionals in notetaking, and generating consult summaries. Heidi technology enables clinicians to focus on patients during the consultation, contributing to improved patient care. It also acts as a valuable tool for medical practitioners, saving them hours of administrative time per week.
Heidi works by transcribing speech into text from a healthcare encounter such as conversations between clinicians and patients or by clinicians dictating their clinical findings, impression and/or management plans before, during and after the healthcare encounter. The clinician can also add additional contextual notes about the healthcare encounter.
This system is designed to alleviate the administrative burden on healthcare professionals, allowing them to focus more on patient care rather than paperwork. The Heidi Scribe will leverage natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition technology, and machine learning algorithms to understand and interpret complex medical dialogue, identify key health information, and categorise data into the appropriate sections of an Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Your consent will be sought for consultations that are transcribed using the Heidi AI tool. Heidi also uses aggregated de-identified information from these consults to improve its models and outputs, ultimately improving both patient care and clinician experience.
All Data that identifies you stays within the practice and its servers which are UK based, no identifiable data is used by the Heidi tool for machine learning.
Heidi AI will not make decisions about your care, it only transcribes verbal interactions with the practice, with your consent.
More information about the model can be found on the Heidi website here: Heidi health