Notts Care Record
The practice now uses Notts Care Record to share data across health services to improve your care.
The Notts Care Record is a view of all the data about you that is held by each different health and social care organisation across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. By sharing patient data across services, clinical and care staff involved in your care can access relevant medical information to improve your care.
We understand the importance of handling senstive medical information with due care and consideration. Please see the below FAQs to understand how, why, and when we use this data, and how to opt-out of the service:
Who can see my health and social care data?
Only professionals in health and care organisations that you have interacted with can see this data. For example, Doctors in Accident and Emergency and your GP.
Why are you sharing my data?
We are already sharing some of your health and care data to make sure that your health and care professionals have the correct information about your medical history.
The Notts Care Record is the upgraded version of this data sharing which will allow health and care professionals to see important information about you to make sure you get the right care at the right time. It will also help reduce the number of times you need to tell the same set of information to different health and care professionals, which will make your care experience more pleasant.
Is this data sharing safe?
This system has been created by the NHS, for the NHS and social care. All the necessary checks have been done to ensure your data is safe and can only be viewed by health or care professionals.
How can I opt out of this data sharing?
If you would not like your data to be shared, please speak to the practice in order to opt-out of the service.
What is the consequence of opting out of this data sharing?
If you take steps to prevent some or all of your health and care data being shared, you can still receive good quality health and care from organisations across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
It will mean however, that you may need to tell the same set of information to each different health or care professional that you encounter as they will not have the ability to know your medical history across the organisations you have used.
It might also mean that you are asked to do the same, or similar tests at different organisations because they don’t have access to the results. For example, A&E might do the same blood test that your GP did last week because they can’t see the results from that initial blood test.