A change has been made to the way Summary Care Records are made available. Where a patient has not previously expressed a preference with regard to their Summary Care Record, both the core and additional information will be included in a patient’s SCR by default.  

When the additional information is uploaded for a patient, the clinical system will automatically make an auditable entry in the patient’s GP record.

Additional information includes:

• significant medical history (past and present)
• reason for medication
• anticipatory care information (such as information about the management of long term conditions) 
• end of life care information (from the SCCI1580 national dataset) 
• immunisations 

More information is available from the NHS Digital website: 

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/summary-care-records-scr/additional-information-in-scr