Surrey Heartlands goes live with Graphnet shared record
- 16 September 2020
The health and care system in Surrey has gone live with a shared record which will help to deliver a more co-ordinated service.
The Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership is now sharing GP, acute and adult social care information across the Integrated Care System.
It has also rolled out specific new functions in the shared record, which is powered by Graphnet, designed to record and alert care professionals about an individual’s coronavirus status.
This latest go live with Surrey Heartlands follows Thames Valley and Surrey Local Health and Care Record partnering up with Graphnet in 2019 to develop a region-wide shared record platform and population health system in a deal worth £12.5 million over seven years.
Katherine Church, chief digital officer for Surrey Heartlands, said: “I am delighted that our frontline clinicians and care professionals can now see near real-time information about their patients at the point of care. This brings huge safety and efficiency benefits, which are all the more valuable as they cope with the impact of Covid-19.
“We are now moving ahead rapidly to make the record more extensive.”
Brian Waters, chief executive of Graphnet, said the company had enjoyed working with Surrey.
He added: “Our respective teams have worked really well together and we are delighted that the shared record is successfully deployed and the ICS is starting to reap the benefits.”
The latest go-live means Graphnet now holds records for a landmark 20 million people across England. This includes care communities such as Greater Manchester, Frimley, Buckinghamshire, St Helens, Northamptonshire and Cheshire.
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This seems a bit out of touch-would you clarify?
@how to lose weight fast
What or who is out of touch? If you’re referring to my comment, basically:
You can only prevent your GP from uploading data, no other organisation
Yoy cannot prevent sharing of data held within the Surrey Care Record unless you are registered with a Surrey GP that participates in the Surrey Care Record
So that means, if you’re not registered at a GP practice in Surrey, and you rock up to East Surrey Hospital A&E, you cannot prevent your data being uploaded to the Surrey Care Record, nor prevent other organisations from looking at that data.
Oh, and ‘consent to view’ isn’t a thing anymore, either
@Simon
My specific concerns are you can only opt out if your GP from sharing data into it, not other organisations.
You cannot opt out of sharing information held within it unless you are registered with a participating GP practice
They ignore objections to the processing of data
In short, patient objections to sharing of data are ignored, despite the legal requirement to comply with such objections.
The legal requirement to share data for direct care only exists if a patient doesn’t object.
Totally ignoring GDPR and patient privacy
@Greg – what is your evidence for this assertion?
And perhaps more pertinently, given that both the current legal framework emphasises the need to share clinical information for direct care, and recent patient surveys suggest this is supported by the vast majority of patients, what are your specific concerns?
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