Electronic patient record consent/dissent

You can in consultation with your Health Care Professional, choose to permit or restrict access to the information entered into your record at each ‘SystmOne’* organisation that access your medical record.

This will allow you to decide who can see the information on your electronic record and allow for care across different NHS settings in order to give you the best care and service. You can still request for individual entries in your patient record to be marked as ‘Private’ and these will not be visible to any care service other than the one that recorded the information.

Why is this necessary?

If you are unconscious, doctors would be able to access your electronic record without first asking your permission (use of this will be monitored).