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Sharing health records for your direct care – what this means for you

What’s changing?

We’re making it easier for the healthcare professionals involved in your direct care to see the information they need. This means we will be automatically sharing your health records with the Care Trust services that are directly supporting your care.

What does this mean for you?

• Your health records will be shared only with staff who are involved in your direct care.
• This helps them understand your needs more quickly and provide safer, more joined-up efficient care.
• You are still in control of your information.
• If you do not want your health records to be shared in this way, you can limit or opt out at any time.
• Your previous privacy choices will always be respected. If you’ve said no to sharing your record, this will not change.
• If you wish to access your health records, please see this information.

Why is the Care Trust doing this?

• Currently, staff have to manually turn sharing on for each patient’s records. This can cause delays and limit access to important information about your care.
• Sharing by default means care teams get the right health records at the right time.
• It also follows national NHS guidance and is already used by other local health services.

Your choice matters

If you have questions, or if you’d like to change how your health records are shared, please speak to a member of staff or email SystmOneFoundationImpliedConsent@bdct.nhs.uk

We’re here to help and want you to feel confident about how your health records are used. Please see below for more information about consent and sharing patient information in the NHS.

Connecting care – Protecting choice

Consent and confidential patient information – NHS England Digital

NHS England » Consent to using and sharing patient information

10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future (easy read) – GOV.UK

NHS England » Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England