Pharmacy: Medical Records

(asked on 18th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to increase pharmacy access to medical notes in the context of the provision of Pharmacy First services.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 29th January 2024

Improving access to the patient record held on general practice (GP) systems is part of the significant improvements to the interoperability of the digital infrastructure between GP and community pharmacy that we committed to fund in the Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care. We will also streamline referrals and enable community pharmacies to share structured updates quickly and efficiently following a pharmacy consultation back into the GP patient record.

These IT improvements which will be introduced this year and will improve existing and future services; for example, by allowing GP patient records to be updated following supply of oral contraception or a blood pressure consultation in community pharmacy.

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