PCRS Position Statement: Single Patient Record
The Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS) recognises that many of our members across primary, community and secondary/tertiary care face significant barriers to effective patient management due to limited or delayed access to patient notes, investigation results, clinical letters and care records. PCRS supports the ambitions set out in the NHS 10 Year Plan: Fit for the Future and believes that a core element of the analogue to digital transition must be the creation of a Single Patient Record.
A Single Patient Record, which is available to patients and healthcare professionals from different care settings alike, and includes information on investigations, care records, results, medical notes by clinicians and coding information, would optimise resources and improve patient care and outcomes by facilitating timely and accurate transfer of medical information. The Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) believes that the continued reliance on written patient records, multiple non interoperable computer systems which result in poor information flow between care settings, is neither acceptable nor aligned with the NHS’s analogue to digital ambition.
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