Practices in Charnwood GP Network have signed a joint data controller agreement. This is supplementary to any Information Sharing Agreement or Protocols currently in place by any signatory organisations.
Four Primary Care Networks have been established across the Federation, tasked with ensuring that the Health and Social needs of the local population are met. Multidisciplinary leadership teams will be established across the networks to facilitate better communication, sharing of information, and resources between healthcare professionals in each network.
The agreement sets out access to personal data for the purpose of providing direct patient care and managing resources in the Primary Care Networks.
The overall aim of the agreement is to describe each Controllers’ responsibilities and set out lawful and consistent approach to the sharing of information that will benefit service users while protecting the confidentiality of their personal data.
Purpose and Benefits of the Agreement
The purpose of this agreement and sharing of information detailed in this agreement is to enable:
- Health care professionals and those with legitimate relationships to patients to access and update the primary care records of the patients they provide direct care towards
- Practices to cover where needed across the network to maintain clinical services
- Receptionists to book appointment outside their surgery as part of the GP Extended Access
By empowering and enabling clinicians across the Primary Care Network Practices so that they can update and access the same record providing they are doing so for direct patient care reasons. This will help continuity and increase patient safety. Furthermore, it develops and promotes specialists’ services to work across the local community that would have been traditionally delivered in a different care setting.