NDG report on barriers to information sharing to support direct care
This report details the findings of a survey commissioned by the National Data Guardian on the barriers to information sharing to support direct care.
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Introduction
In late 2019, the National Data Guardian commissioned an online survey to help her better understand the perceived barriers to health and care professionals sharing information to support direct care, also called individual care. Its purpose was to learn what educational initiatives she might usefully encourage to support appropriate information sharing.
This report details the findings from that survey, including a set of four recommendations.
NDG Panel member, Dr Alan Hassey has published an accompanying blog post, in which he discusses the survey’s findings, recommendations and next steps.
Draft decision support tool
One of the recommendations in the report was that there needs to be clarity about what falls within direct care and what does not. To fill the gap until such time as this recommendation can be met in full, we have developed a draft decision-support algorithm which may help frontline health and care professionals and can be downloaded as an Excel document on this page. If validated and assured, such a decision-support tool could be incorporated into an app or clinical / care record system.