GP Contractual Requirements 2014

The purpose and effect of these new contractual requirements is that from 1 April 2014 all practices in England will offer and promote patients online access to transactional services such as booking and cancellation of appointments and ordering of repeat prescriptions and they will also provide patients with access to information from their medical records from 1 April 2014.

Booking and Cancellation of Appointments and Ordering of Repeat Prescriptions

This arrangement has been in place at the Practice since 2013.

Patients access to information from their medical records

The practice is able to offer patients access to information from their records.

Interoperable records

All practices are required to enable successful automated uploads of any changes to a patients summary information, at least on a daily basis, to the Summary Care Record (SCR). 

Utilise the GP2GP facility for transfer of all patient records between

practices, when a patient registers or de-registers (not for temporary

registration). This arrangement is in place at the Practice.