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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 (v4) Managing PKB memberships).
In order to keep these records organised and useful, we group individual records corresponding to a single physical patient by a UKRDC ID. A single UKRDC ID is shared by all the individual records for a single patient.
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Clicking on a record will take you to a complete view of that record.
FAQ
Why do you need a UKRDC ID? Can you not group records by NHS number?
No, quite simply because a patient could, for example, move between England and Scotland, and thus have two separate patient records with entirely different national identifiers, one an NHS number, and the other a CHI number.
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