Louise Brierley
Incident Support Officer with Midlands Ambulance Service
Transcript
One example of where this would help us out with, if you go out to patient who is unconscious, knowing whether they’re diabetic or they’ve had a stroke, because then the patients are going to react differently to the tests that we do, you need to know what their baseline obs normally for this patient could be.
I think Summary Care Records are important to me and they mean a lot to me because obviously I have got a chronic condition and I also thing they are important to other people because people develop conditions at whatever age in life and its nice to know you’ve got these medical details or these drug details available for other doctors or hospitals to access in the case of an emergency.
The GPs need to be aware when they see the patients they’re not well, they’re ill. But it’s not in such an emergency situation and they need to understand that just having a simple name and address, a list of medication, may be at hand how it helps us.
