When we are at our most vulnerable, providing health and care professionals with access to your records allows them to understand your needs and make the best decisions with you, and for you.

The NHS wants to ensure data is collected consistently and made available across local areas to support joined up and safer care on a day to day basis.

That is why NHS England are investing in a number of Local Health and Care Record Exemplars that will enable the safe and secure sharing of an individual’s health and care information as they move between different parts of the NHS and social care.

The local health and care record exemplar programme is designed to support local areas that are already adopting best practice in the collection, protection and ethical use of health and care data to go further, faster and encourage others to follow swiftly in their footsteps.

Local data sharing partnerships

Data can save lives, so the NHS is working to better join it up across local areas. Watch this video for more information: