

You may need to ask to see the child’s birth certificate to confirm the relationship, unless someone in the practice can vouch for them. You do not need to do an ID check for children you only need to ID check the parent when giving a family access to online services. Safeguarding: Could you please clarify if ID is needed for a child under 11 when being signed up by the parent?

Some practices might ask patients to complete and sign a form to confirm that they would like access to additional services. Patients can get access to additional services without showing ID again. No, you only need to check ID once when the patient first signs up for GP online services. This could be done to hide sensitive information from the patient or adult wanting access to the record.ĭo IDs need to be obtained each time a patient requests access to additional services? Some clinical systems allow you to remove or hide parts of the information in the record, making them private. The practice should think about this when deciding if the child should have access to their own record too. When deciding whether or not an adult should be allowed access to a child’s record, the GP practice should think about any safeguarding information in the record. Will safeguarding information be visible to a parent/carer? You can find more information on this in the training materials for GP practices which were made by NHS England and the RCGP. If the GP decides the patient should not have access they need to talk this through with the patient.Ĭan a practice give access to records to children and young people?Įach practice decides if it wants to offer online services to children and from what age that access should be allowed. If the clinical system does not let you hide parts of the information in the coded record then the GP would need to decide if that patient should have access at this time. Not all systems are able to hide parts of the coded record, even if the GP has deemed it not to be in the patient’s best interest. Is it possible to restrict access to parts of the record for some patients? When the patient is registered, but before they are given online access to their detailed coded record, the practice will need to check the record to ensure that no third party information is disclosed or any other information that may cause harm to the patient or any other person. Before patients can register, the practice needs to confirm that the patient is who they say they are.
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Patients have to ask their practice for access and the practice should have a process for how to register patients. Patients cannot see their detailed coded record until the practice lets them by opening up access. Will all registered patients automatically be able to see their coded information? Sensitive information can be hidden from the patients’ view how you do this is different for each system. You can set up an example patient so that staff can see how the system will look for patients.
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