POTENTIALLY life-saving medical information on individuals’ health is to be stored in a new electronic system designed to make emergency treatment “quicker and safer”.
The electronic summery care records will store information such as medication, allergies and any previous bad reactions a patient may have had to medicines.
Angela Wood, of NHS North Yorkshire and York, said: “Currently, the only way that information about medication and allergies can be found quickly is if the patient or someone with them is able to tell the health professional treating them.
Obviously this isn’t always possible so the summary care record will play a major role in ensuring health professionals have access to the relevant information they need.”
The trust said only authorised staff with a chip-and-pin NHS smartcard, and who are involved in a patient’s treatment, will be able to use the information.
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