{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/regulation-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/regulation-68.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1862",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/68",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Summary Care Record",
  "text": "(1) A contractor must, in any case where there is a change to the information included in a patient's medical record, enable the automated upload of summary information to the Summary Care Record, when the change occurs, using approved systems provided to it by NHS England .\n(2) In this regulation—\n“Summary Care Record” means the system approved by NHS England for the automated uploading, storing and displaying of patient data relating to medications, allergies, adverse reactions and, where agreed with the contractor and subject to the patient's consent, any other data (other than any information recorded in accordance with regulation 67A or any information about ethnicity provided under regulation 71ZC) taken from the patient's electronic record; and\n“summary information” means items of patient data that comprise the Summary Care Record.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(1) substituted (3.10.2016) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/875), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(2) inserted (1.1.2021) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1415), regs. 1(2), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(2) inserted (1.10.2021) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/995), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 8 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/regulation/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:48.208183+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}