London Information Sharing Workshop

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London Information Sharing Workshop 6th July
2009
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• Sharing Personal Identifiable Information
• The LAS Perspective
• Stephen Moore

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Benefits to the LAS of Sharing Personal
Information

• Improved Patient Care and clinical outcomes

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LAS shares personal information with

• Other NHS Trusts
• Local Authorities
• Police
• Contracted Third Parties
• Legal entities (for civil criminal cases)

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Requirements for personal information from others

• LAS requires essential information which would
  improve patient care such as
• Details of persons at risk
• Frequent callers social and medical backgrounds
• Patient treatment outcomes

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LAS shares personal information by

• Email (including NHS Mail)
• Fax
• Post

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Governance measures include

• Policies and Procedures
• Information Sharing Agreements and Contracts
• SIRO
• Information Governance Group
• Information Governance Toolkit
• Internal Audits

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Safeguards

• Protocol/Agreement or Contract
• Secure Transfer

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Issues for LAS

• ISF v. Contracts
• Sharing information between NHS Trusts
• Individual personal data v. bulk data
• Current Information Sharing Protocols
• No standard framework in LAS for information
  sharing with other organisations
• Staff awareness of, and compliance with, correct
  governance

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LAS Requirement

• One cost-effective Pan-London Framework
• Leading ultimately to
• One National Framework