Increasingly, patient medical data is shared e.g. between GP surgeries , secondary care (Hospitals) and District Nursing and other healthcare settings, in order to give clinicians access to the most up to date information when attending patients.
For example; it may be necessary to share data held in GP practices with district nurses but the local podiatry department would not need to see it to undertake their work. In this case, patients would allow the surgery to share their data, they would allow the district nurses to access it but they would not allow access by the podiatry department. In this way access to patient data is under patients’ control and can be shared on a ‘need to know’ basis.
If you’d like to discuss not sharing your clinical information for your direct care, please contact the surgery to have that discussion.