Care Records Service

The NHS has introduced the NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS) throughout England and Wales. This is to improve the safety and quality of your care.

The purpose of the NHS Care Record Service is to allow information about you to be safely and securely accessed more quickly. Gradually, this will phase out difficult to access paper and film records.

There are two elements to your patient records:

• Summary Care Records (SCR) - held nationally, and rolling out in Leeds in 2009/10; and 
• Detailed Care Records (DCR) - held locally.
To find out more about the NHS CRS, go to www.nhscarerecords.nhs.uk  

An easy read guide is available to download by clicking here.

Related pages on this site

Detailed Care RecordsNHS Leeds plans to introduce detailed care records for patients in LeedsSummary Care RecordsNHS Leeds is rolling out summary care records in LeedsBenefits of Summary Care RecordsBenefits for patients in Leeds of the Summary Care RecordsConfidentiality of RecordsPatient records in Leeds will remain strictly confidential as part of the Summary Care Record programmePatient informationInformation for patients in Leeds about Summary Care RecordsDrop-in sessionsPatients in Leeds cat attend drop-in sessions to find out more about Summary Care RecordsHow to opt outInformation for patients in Leeds who want to opt out of the Summary Care Records

Related sites

NHS Care Records Service

Related downloads

| Care Records Service - easy read leaflet.pdf (3.94 MB)