Your health records
The way we manage your health records is changing...
Currently each NHS organisation responsible for your care keeps its own records about you and your treatment. Paper and electronic records containing information about your medical care currently exist in a variety of places, for example, at your GP surgery or local hospital.
Sometimes, healthcare staff caring for you need to see information in these records to support your care. For example your GP may need to see your hospital test results. However, healthcare staff can usually only share information from your records by NHS mail, email, fax or phone. At times, this can cause delays in making sure that the right people receive the right information as quickly as possible.
To help combat this the NHS in England is introducing the NHS Care Records Service to improve the safety and quality of patient care. It will give healthcare staff faster, easier access to reliable information about you to help with your care.
With NHS Care Records there will be quicker ways to get important and accurate information to the NHS staff treating you, including in an emergency and when you use out-of-hours services whilst your GP practice is closed. These records will remain secure and confidential.
Your care records will be made up of two parts;
Click on the video below to see the importance of having a care record both for the patient and for the health care provider
