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Health & Social Care Information Sharing - A Strategic Framework 2014-2020
Information sharing, to meet the needs of people, practitioners and organisations, is
essential to support Scotland’s commitment to integrated, person-centred care,
across adult and children’s services. The focus of this Information Sharing Strategic Framework is on sharing information in support of people’s
interactions with care services.
Section 4 - Summary of Principles and Actions
This table summarises the actions set out in the rest of the document. The Information Sharing Board will work with the stakeholders identified to develop these further within local and national delivery plans.
| Document reference | Action | Lead Responsibility and Timescale |
|---|---|---|
| Partnerships | ||
| Section 2.1 | Local partnerships need to consider information sharing as a key strand of their integrated governance arrangements | Local partnerships - April 2015 |
| Section 2.1 | Local partnerships need to work together in regional groupings where appropriate | Local partnerships - Aug 2015 |
| Section 2.1 | Local partnerships will need to maintain close relationships with all of the other organisations with whom they will need to share information in order to deliver health and social care. | Local partnerships - April 2015 |
| Section 2.1 | Local partnerships need to build in links with national collaboration groups, such as the Information Sharing Board (ISB) | Local partnerships and ISB - Aug 2015 |
| Putting people at the centre of their care | ||
| Section 2.2 | Scottish Government to work with partnerships to investigate current equalities, rights and how to involve people, with a view to developing a consistent approach | Scottish Government - Summer 2015 |
| Section 2.2 | Partnerships will consider the role that co-produced records will play in integrated arrangements, particularly in terms of involving people more directly in the accessing and sharing of their information | Local Partnerships - Summer 2015 |
| Section 2.2 | Partnerships to develop a public engagement element to their activities. | Local Partnerships - Summer 2015 |
| Section 2.2 | Scottish Government to develop plans for a public debate on how people should be enabled to play a greater role in creating and sharing health and care information | Scottish Government -tbc |
| Applying Information Governance | ||
| Section 2.3 | Develop plan for promotion of Caldicott Principles across health and social care, working with the Caldicott Forum and local authorities | Scottish Government - April 2015 |
| Section 2.3 | SASPI to be promoted as the consistent approach to information sharing agreements across health and social care, with partnerships to consider the impact of moving towards this model | Scottish Government/Local partnerships - ongoing |
| Section 2.3 | Partnerships will use the ICO guidance of data sharing, both the Code of Practice, and the statements in support of sharing for children's and adults' services, to form the core of their operational procedures for information sharing | On-going |
| Section 2.3 | Partnerships should use new ICO guidance on handling access requests to form the basis of their approach to requests for jointly held records | On-going |
| Section 2.3 | Partnerships need to consider the data ownership implications of their new integrated governance arrangements, drawing upon advice from the ICO | Local partnerships - April 2015 |
| Section 2.3 | Partnerships need to ensure appropriate links are being made to the work of the NIIF, to inform decisions around business intelligence work | Local partnerships - Aug 2015 |
| Section 2.3 | Ensure that Fair Processing Notices cover the sharing of data for integrated care and analysis of information for joint planning decisions | On-going |
| Developing and Using Standards | ||
| Section 2.4 | The ISB will develop a clear position on ownership and governance of cross-sector standards | ISB - Aug 2015 |
| Section 2.4 | ISB will co-ordinate the production of standard approaches and supporting datasets for adults' and children's services | Interoperability Working Group -ongoing |
| Section 2.4 | Proposals around local and national "matching" services to be developed for the ISB to consider | Interoperability Working Group - April 2015 |
| Exploiting Information Sharing Infrastructure and Technology | ||
| Section 2.5 | Organisations should put in place plans to connect to SWAN for the network infrastructure services and should provide details to the SWAN project team of issues which may need to be addressed as part of this process. | Local organisations - April 2015 |
| Section 2.5 | ISB to coordinate plans for the development of common interfaces, to deliver the technology components for information sharing | Local authorities, eHealth Leads, Directors of Social Work, Directors of Education, national organisations with ISB co-ordination and support - January 2015 |
| Section 2.5 | ISB to coordinate the production of an information sharing architecture vision based on local partnerships requirements | ISB - June 2015 |
| Section 2.5 | Partnerships to consider the current sector specific challenges when developing the work programme on information sharing | Local partnerships |
| Section 2.5 | Partnerships to make links with plans on mobile working across their locality, so that prioritised plans for information sharing in support of mobile working can be developed, based on local needs | Local partnerships |
| Working collaboratively to drive progress | ||
| Section 2.6 | Further develop the maturity model | ISB - Ongoing |
| Section 2.6 | Scottish Government will make links with the Technology-Enabled Learning for Scotland's Health and Social Services programme to embed safe information handling as a concept in practitioner training, at an early stage | Scottish Government - October 2015 |
| Section 2.6 | Evaluation of existing work around Safe Information Handling to assess suitability for cross-sector use | Scottish Government - April 2015 |
| Section 2.6 | Work with workforce colleagues at a local and national level to understand what impact improved information handling and sharing capabilities have on policies and procedures | HR directors with support from Scottish Government - |
| Section 2.6 | ISB to develop a repository of documents and resources, to support collaboration across partnerships | ISB - on-going |
| Section 2.6 | Resource requirements for both information sharing start-up activity and on-going costs will need to be factored in to partnership plans | Local Partnerships - |
| Section 2.6 | Scottish Government to establish an overarching funding model for the support of information sharing beyond 2014-15. | Scottish Government - January 2015 |
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Email: Alan Milbourne
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