Record Read Code for Access to Patient Summary

England, Scotland and Northern Ireland only

In order for your patients to view their Patient Summary once the functionality is enabled at your practice, you must add the following data to the patient record in the following order:

• Step 1 - Patient identity verification - See Adding Patient Identity Verification Details for details, this step should have been completed when the patient was registered for online services.
• Step 2 - England, Scotland and Northern Ireland only - Electronic record notes summary verification - See Recording the Read Code for Access to Patient Summary for details.

It is Important to note -

• You must only record 93440 Electronic record notes summary verified if the patient already has 91B..00 Patient Registration Data Verified recorded. This is an NHS requirement and is the practice's responsibility to manage.
• It may take up to 24 hours from adding these codes until the patient can see their Summary tab.
• Before going live with Patient Summary, you should check for patients who already have 93440 Electronic record notes summary verified on their record, recorded in relation to something other than the online Patient Summary. For such patients, you can edit the record and change the Read code to another appropriate Read code, see Patient Summary Clinical Audit for details.
• You can start to record and monitor Read codes for patients to access Patient Summary at any point, you do not need Summary Data enabled to do this.
• You may wish to review patient records before allowing patients to access their summary. You can track patients with or without this Read code using the Online Services Clinical Audit, see Patient Summary Clinical Audit for details.