New Practices Preparing for SCR

The Summary Care Record (SCR) facility is being rolled out gradually across the NHS. You will be informed by your Integrated Care Board (ICB)when your practice has met all the requirements needed to participate in the SCR scheme and when your allocated date of commencement is scheduled.

Prior to your date of commencement you need to ensure you have Role Based Access Control (RBAC) fully enabled at your practice. RBAC has been in place for some time without directly affecting your access to specific functions in Vision 3. However, RBAC becomes a compulsory part of Vision 3 once SCR release 2.1 is installed. This means that once you login to Vision 3 with your Smartcard, your access to Vision 3 modules and functions is dictated by the roles and functions that are stored on your Smartcard, whether you log in on or offline.

Practices who have Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) R2 enabled are already using RBAC, but need to ensure the relevant SCR roles and functions are added to their Smartcard.

You must contact your ICB RA Manager prior to upgrading to SCR release 2.1 and ensure that all staff have all their required functions and roles added to their Smartcards. Some staff also require the relevant SCR RBAC codes to be assigned to their Smartcard to perform SCR Functions.

See Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Roles used in SCR for details.

If using SCR Viewing to view non-registered patients SCR, you must appoint a practice Privacy Officer to monitor the viewing activity.

See Viewing the National Summary for a Non-Permanent Patient for details.
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