Summary Care Records help health and care staff make better decisions about your care and treatment. If you are registered with a GP practice in England, your SCR is created automatically unless you have opted out. 98% of practices are now using the system.

This contains important information about your health, such as:

• Medicines you take
• Allergies you have
• Medicines that make you ill

You might need to see a doctor or nurse who does not know you. If they do not know about your care, your SCR:

• could stop them making a mistake, because they can see your medicines, allergies, and what medicines make you ill
• will help them see your information straight away on a computer

Doctors and nurses treating you will ask if they can look at your SCR to help them treat you quickly and safely.

You can opt-out of having a Summary Care Record altogether. This means that you do not want any information shared with other authorised, registered and regulated health and care professionals involved in your direct care, including in an emergency.

To make these changes, please complete the SCR Patient Consent Preferences Form (PDF) and return it to us.

Alternatively, if there is specific information you don’t want added, please let us know.

We no longer do these here at the Medical Centre. If you are needing a HGV, LGV, or taxi medical then please visit Drivers Medicals, or call them on 01454 317436.

You can access and download your application forms via the GOV website.

Once you have filled out your application form you will need to bring this into the surgery along with £50 for the GP to go through and sign. We will then send this off for you via email. If you would like your paperwork back, please let us know.

NHS England is only the data controller for GP health records where an individual is currently not registered with a GP or is deceased. These records are held by Primary Care Support England (PCSE) on behalf of NHS England. To request access to GP health records in these circumstances, please visit the PCSE website.

Please follow this link to read information on the access to the health and care records of deceased individuals

All GP practices are required to declare the mean net earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice.  This is required in the interests of the greater public accountability recognising GP pay is ultimately funded from tax paid by the public.

The average pay for GPs working in Okehampton Medical Centre in the last financial year was £14,493 before tax and national insurance.  This is for 1 full time GP, 11 part time GPs and 5 locum GPs (who worked in the practice for more than six months.)

Please click here to view our Consent to use mobile number and email for correspondence policy

Click here to view our Accessibility statement

Further information about the way in which the NHS uses personal information and your rights in that respect can be found here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/privacy-notice/how-we-use-your-information.

The Information Commissioner’s Office is the Regulator for the GDPR and offers independent advice and guidance on the law and personal data, including your rights and how to access your personal information. For further information, please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office website.

If you don’t want data from your GP record to be collected or shared, you have two options.

You can opt out of sharing identifiable patient data from your GP record, except that which is used for your own care and treatment, by registering a Type 1 Opt-out. You can find out more about registering a Type 1 Opt-out here.

You can opt out of identifiable patient data about you being shared for research and planning by NHS Digital or other organisations by registering a National Data Opt-out. The National Data Opt-out will be applied by NHS Digital in line with the National Data Opt-out policy. Patients can view or change how their information is used via the National Data opt-out at any time by using the online service at: https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/ or by clicking on “Your Health” in the NHS app, and selecting “Choose if data from your health records is shared for research and planning”.

For further information or to register a data opt-out, please click here.

If you receive your medical records and would like to dispute the accuracy or have queries regarding the content, you may object or opt to have certain entries deleted.

As a patient at the practice, you can apply your UK GDPR rights of:

Rectification (Article 16 UK GDPR)
Erasure (Article 17 UK GDPR)
Restriction of processing (Article 18 UK GDPR)
Data portability (Article 20 UK GDPR)
Right to object (Article 21 UK GDPR)

If you would like to request amendments to your records, please contact the Medical Centre by emailing the Management Partner, kiran.bakhshi@nhs.net. In the email, please include your name, date of birth, and outline any queries/objections with your medical records.

A member of the team will then contact you to investigate further, and the surgery will take necessary action with your records.