Your Health Record
How to navigate to all areas of your health records, including changing you details, accessing online services and submitting a subject access request
Subject Access Requests and Private Services
Subject Access Requests (SAR) and Private Services
If you would like a copy of your records, or you would like to request a service that isn’t usually offered under the GP contract you can request these directly from us
Online Services
Online Services
For more about accessing services online, setting up an online account and getting support
Change of Details Form
Change of details form
If you need to change any details that we hold please follow the instruction on the page below. Before submitting this form please check to make sure your new address fall within our practice boundary. If not you will need to register with a new surgery. Please let us know as soon as possible if you change your address, telephone number or name. It is important that we have up to date contact details in case we need to contact you. Please note: If your name has changed due to Marriage or by Deed Poll, can you please provide us with a copy of the appropriate document (requirement of Department of Health).
Sharing your medical Record
Sharing Your Medical Record
Increasingly, patient medical data is shared e.g. between GP surgeries and District Nursing, in order to give clinicians access to the most up to date information when attending patients. The systems we operate require that any sharing of medical information is consented to by patients beforehand. Patients must consent to sharing of the data held by a health provider out to other health providers and must also consent to which of the other providers can access their data .e.g. it may be necessary to share data held in GP practices with district nurses but the local podiatry department would not need to see it to undertake their work. In this case, patients would allow the surgery to share their data, they would allow the district nurses to access it but they would not allow access by the podiatry department. In this way access to patient data is under patients’ control and can be shared on a ‘need to know’ basis. For further information please see below. Sharing Poster v5 (1)
Summary Care Record
Summary Care Record
There is a new Central NHS Computer System called the Summary Care Record (SCR). The Summary Care Record is meant to help emergency doctors and nurses help you when you contact them when the surgery is closed. Initially, it will contain just your medications and allergies. Later on as the central NHS computer system develops, (known as the ‘Summary Care Record’ – SCR), other staff who work in the NHS will be able to access it along with information from hospitals, out of hours services, and specialists letters that may be added as well. Your information will be extracted from practices such as ours and held on central NHS databases. As with all new systems there are pros and cons to think about. When you speak to an emergency doctor you might overlook something that is important and if they have access to your medical record it might avoid mistakes or problems, although even then, you should be asked to give your consent each time a member of NHS Staff wishes to access your record, unless you are medically unable to do so. On the other hand, you may have strong views about sharing your personal information and wish to keep your information at the level of this practice. Connecting for Health (CfH), the government agency responsible for the Summary Care Record have agreed with doctors’ leaders that new patients registering with this practice should be able to decide whether or not their information is uploaded to the Central NHS Computer System. For existing patients it is different in that it is assumed that you want your record uploaded to the Central NHS Computer System unless you actively opt out.
Finding Historic Information about your MMR
Finding historic information about your MMR (Measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccination
We have had a large number of enquiries recently regarding historic vaccinations for MMR, click here for our FAQs about MMR. If you we’re born before 1970 it is likely you have not had the MMR vaccine. If you have not had the vaccination you can contact us to find out more about catching up. If you are unsure if you have had the vaccine, the quickest way to find out information about your vaccination history is through the NHS App or via Online Services
