Joining up health and care data

News - 26 July 2018

When we are at our most vulnerable, providing health and care professionals with access to our records allows them to understand our needs and make the best decisions with us, and for us.
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NHS England want to ensure data is collected consistently and made available across local areas to support joined up and safer care on a day to day basis.

That is why NHS England are investing in a number of Local Health and Care Record Exemplars that will enable the safe and secure sharing of an individual’s health and care information as they move between different parts of the NHS and social care.

The local health and care record exemplar programme is designed to support local areas that are already adopting best practice in the collection, protection and ethical use of health and care data to go further, faster and encourage others to follow swiftly in their footsteps.

At the same time, they are working to make sure that data can flow seamlessly between different IT systems across health and care settings.

Find out more about NHS system-wide move towards interoperability.

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