A “shared care agreement” (SCA) in the NHS is a formal arrangement between a patient’s GP and a private or hospital consultant specialist, allowing them to jointly manage a specific health condition. The GP takes on some responsibility for prescribing and monitoring specialist medications under the guidance of the specialist, ensuring the patient receives coordinated care.<\/p>\n
Does my GP have to accept my SCA request?<\/strong><\/p>\n No. A GP is not legally bound to sign and is entitled to refuse an SCA if they are not happy with the burden of responsibility it puts on them.<\/p>\n I have been diagnosed privately, does my GP have to accept an SCA from any provider?<\/strong><\/p>\n No. Our GPs will only consider requests from providers who meet rigorous NHS standards and requirements specific to the services they offer.<\/p>\n You may also find the Right to Choose information in the following topic useful.<\/p>\n When can I stop seeing my private consultant?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Responsibility will always sit with the specialist. This includes initiating any medication, and an SCA can only be requested once the medication dose is stable (titrated). If our GP agrees to takeover prescribing, it will only be to issue the medication on the titrated dose.<\/p>\n You will be required to attend annual reviews with your specialist and agree to this as part of the SCA. Failure to attend regular monitoring may lead to the SCA being suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A “shared care agreement” (SCA) in the NHS is a formal arrangement between a patient’s GP and a private or hospital consultant specialist, allowing them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-524","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/g81694\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/g81694\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/g81694\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/g81694\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/g81694\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/g81694\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/g81694\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}