HEALTH AND CARE DATA
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Data from patient health and adult social care records helps the NHS to improve individual care, speed up diagnosis, plan local services and research new treatments. Ensuring that staff and patients have access to the right data, at the right time, is vital to the NHS providing effective, safe, good value services. Data can save lives. So Health and Care Data is working to better join it up across local areas. |
DATA SAVES LIVES AND IMPROVES CARE
Data is vital to high quality, good value care.
Being able to access data about a patient from a computer anywhere in the NHS is vital to ensuring individual patients get great care, at the right time, in the right place:
Information gained by analysing patient data from many people, helps the NHS to improve health and care for everyone. For example:
Data is vital to high quality, good value care.
Being able to access data about a patient from a computer anywhere in the NHS is vital to ensuring individual patients get great care, at the right time, in the right place:
- It enables Doctors and Nurses to know about any existing conditions.
- It lets a Clinician know what medications a patient is already on and stops them receiving another drug that might react badly with what they have already taken.
- It allows a Clinician to be alerted to important information that may need swift action.
- It means that a patient does not need to remember every detail of their care and repeat it to every Doctor and Nurse that they meet.
- It lets the NHS provide care in the place that is right for the patient, knowing that they will always have the up-t-date information they they need.
Information gained by analysing patient data from many people, helps the NHS to improve health and care for everyone. For example:
- Insight into how different people respond to different treatments enables health and care professionals to identify the care that is safest, and most likely to work, for each individual patient.
- Data about how services are used, and who uses them, enables the NHS to plan and buy services which meet patient needs.
- Research using data about people's key characteristics, conditions and symptoms and care leads to the discovery of new cures and life-changing treatments.
- Knowing what usually happens to people who have the same conditions or treatments ressures patients and enables them to care for themselves better.
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RIGHTS AND SECURITY
We are committed to keeping patient data safe, sharing it securely and lawfully, and always being clear about why it is used. NHS networks and systems for storing and sharing data are managed by NHS Digital using world-class standards of cyber security.
Your data belongs to you, so it's important your data is used only in ways you would reasonably expect, and that it stays safe. Data Protection Law makes sure everyone’s data is used properly and legally.
We are committed to keeping patient data safe, sharing it securely and lawfully, and always being clear about why it is used. NHS networks and systems for storing and sharing data are managed by NHS Digital using world-class standards of cyber security.
Your data belongs to you, so it's important your data is used only in ways you would reasonably expect, and that it stays safe. Data Protection Law makes sure everyone’s data is used properly and legally.
YOUR RIGHTS ... Find out more about your personal data rights
Further information can be obtained from the INFORMATION COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE (ICO) - web link above. The ICO is an independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.
Further information can be obtained from the INFORMATION COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE (ICO) - web link above. The ICO is an independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.
