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Furthermore, patients may have “secondary”records, such as old historic data migrated from older UKKA systems, tracing records used to verify demographic information, and membership records (see Managing membership records).
In order to keep these records organised and useful, we group individual records corresponding to a single physical patient into “master records”. Each “master record” is identified by a single UKRDC ID, which is shared by all the individual constituent patient records.
For example, let’s take a made-up patient, Benson Dunwoody, who has a record being sent to the UKRDC from a renal unit PARK01 via a UKRDC/RDA feed. The patient, a frequent traveller, also has a record being sent from EASTPINES via a UKRDC/RDA feed, a PKB membership record, and a TRACING record. Each of these records is stored individually within the UKRDC to allow staff at each unit to view only their data, and to prevent secondary records such as memberships and tracing data from interfering with the records sent by renal units (and vice versa). However, each of these records has a common UKRDC ID, and thus get grouped within the UKRDC into a master record corresponding to the individual patient.
Viewing a master record will display basic demographic data about the patient, and a list of all individual records the current user has permission to access. For example, a member of staff at one renal unit will not be able to see any individual records from other renal units, even for the same patient.
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