Friday 21 February 2014

Data Sharing opt out forms.

Following our recent email a couple of weeks ago and the press and media coverage about data sharing, several patients have been asking to be "opted out" of data sharing.

It is extremely important the proper opt out forms are used and so we have added them to our data sharing page on the website for ease of access.

They can be found here

Monday 3 February 2014

Confused about NHS Data sharing?

This week at home I received, along with a host of other junk mail, a leaflet from the NHS entitled "Better information means better care". As a GP, and one with a special interest in medical information technology, I was aware this was coming. However, when it arrived its fair to say that I was disappointed in its "junk mail" format and that it only seems to confuse the issue of electronic sharing of information yet further.
So far, over the last year, we as patients have received letters about the Hampshire Health Record, the Summary Care Record, and now this Care.Data information.

In order to try to clarify NHS Data Sharing for our patients, I have written a page on our website providing a summary of these data sharing systems, with links to more detailed explanations. I hope this will help you understand the systems better. The web page can viewed here:
http://www.waterfrontandsolent.co.uk/data-sharing

Regards
Dr Sherwin