Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that out-of-hours GP services have access to patients' medical records.

Summary Care Records are being introduced to improve the safety and quality of patient care. The Summary Care Record is a single electronic record held centrally so will give healthcare staff faster, easier access to essential information and help to give patients safe treatment during an emergency or when their general practitioner (GP) surgery is closed.

55.06 million people have had a Summary Care Record created and the Summary Care Record is currently enabled in 102 out of 154 Out of Hours GP Services.