Development of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
Published on: 16th May 2016 | Updated on: 28th May 2025
Primary care health professionals, including community pharmacists, have been creating electronic records of their interactions with patients for many years, but these records had not usually been integrated. In the past there have been attempts to create central patient record systems for use by all healthcare professionals, but the focus is now on ensuring inter-operability between individual health record systems and across boundaries.
NHS policy
The Department of Health and Social Care’s vision is that information will increasingly facilitate joining up care within the NHS. A key commitment set out in past DHSC strategies that the NHS will provide all NHS patients with secure online access, where they wish it, to their personal information. More than 97% of the population now has the access to summary medical records online.
Community Pharmacy England view
Community Pharmacy England is supportive of the commitment and work related to setting further common standards to enable information to flow effectively around the health system by granting community pharmacy with increasing the ability to record information into EHRs.
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