Patients can request to act as a proxy for children, relatives or someone they care for. This allows them to access health services on behalf of someone else.
How it works
- Patient to contact their GP surgery and ask them to register them for proxy access.
- Access the linked profile by clicking on ‘Switch profiles’ on the homepage. A yellow banner at the top will show they are acting on behalf of someone else once they switch profiles. They can return to their own profile by selecting ‘Switch back to your profile’.
Patients can use linked profiles if:
- they and the other person are both registered at the same GP surgery
- their GP surgery has registered them for proxy access
- their GP surgery uses EMIS (Patient Access) or TPP SystmOne (Airmid or SystmOnline)
Depending on the level of proxy access the surgery agrees to provide, they may be able to switch profiles to book an appointment, order a repeat prescription, or view some or all of their GP health record.
Carers can order medication by proxy which reduces the time spent processing requests from Medication Administration Record charts.
