The patient  health summary is the  most  useful information you can present to a doctor you are seeing  for the first time or when attending Accident  & Emergency or being admitted to   hospital.  Patient  health  summaries are  readily printed by your GP and  ususally  are  1-2 A 4 pages that are easily carried and read by a health professional. They also faciltate any practitioner  contacting your regular doctor and assist  in providing  the  address for communicating results , correspondence  and discharge summaries to.

We encourage you to ask  your doctor to print you a copy to carry