The first version of EMIS Web to be available to GPs will not include Summary Care Record (SCR) functionality. Those practices already uploading to the SCR will not be upgraded to EMIS Web until later in the year when SCR functionality is due to be released. This will avoid the potential dangers of an existing SCR record becoming out of date.

Those practices who are using LV and are being encouraged to switch on uploads to the SCR need to consider their local priorities; whether their patients have been adequately informed; whether an upgrade to EMIS Web soon is more beneficial to their patients than an SCR and a deferred upgrade; that the SCR is under current review; and that the BMA's GP Committee has recommended that further uploads are suspended until the review is completed and considered.

Then decide! But remember it is not a matter of "either/or" but of which to implement first in your practice.