The new tab includes whether a patient has received first, second and/or booster doses of a coronavirus vaccination. This information may support you to manage the patient but should not be used in isolation. Patient management decisions should always be made drawing on the widest range of information sources available.
The information is currently updated overnight via the Data Processing Service. Booster doses are being loaded into SCRa in due course.
This information along with healthcare information from other sources, such as a patient’s previous testing history and clinical information, will support you to decide how you provide services and treat your patients during the pandemic.
Each time a patient’s record is opened by a clinical user, a COVID-19 Vaccination tab will be available if an individual has received first, second and/or booster doses of a coronavirus vaccination. The tab will be available on the same row as the Key Demographic Information tab. If a patient is yet to receive a coronavirus vaccination, then no tab will be visible.
It’s anticipated that there will be a delay between a patient receiving a coronavirus vaccination and information about this vaccination event being available on the COVID-19 Vaccination tab in SCRa. This delay is likely to be up to 48 hours but could be longer in some cases.
Adverse reactions that have occurred within 15 minutes of the vaccination event and have been recorded will be displayed on the COVID-19 Vaccinations tab. Information about adverse reactions occurring later than 15 minutes after the vaccination event will not be displayed in the COVID-19 Vaccinations tab but may have been recorded separately and be available in other shared care records.
Healthcare professionals who already have access to the SCR (clinical users) will have access to this new tab and the information within it for an individual by default.
It will also support clinicians to report Yellow Card issues to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on suspected side effects.