Choose if data from your health records is shared for research and planning

Find out how data from your health records can help with research and planning, and choose if you want to share your data.

Choose if data from your health records is shared for research and planning - NHS

Your health records contain a type of data called confidential patient information. This data can be used to help with research and planning.

You can choose to stop your confidential patient information being used for research and planning. You can also make a choice for someone else like your children under the age of 13.

Your choice

You can stop your confidential patient information being used for research and planning. Find out how to make your choice.

If you're happy with your confidential patient information being used for research and planning you do not need to do anything.

Any choice you make will not impact your individual care.

One Health and Care – One record for better health and care. Integrated Health and Care Record for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

What is One Health and Care?

One Health and Care - Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, ICS

One Health and Care is a confidential digital shared care record for people living in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. One Health and Care brings data together from the different organisations involved in health and social care. It allows doctors, nurses and other registered health and social care professionals directly involved in patient/client care to view relevant information in order to provide better and safer care. 

When a patient visits any of the organisations listed below, or use services provided by them, staff directly involved in their care will have access to the important information from health and social care records. 

• •   Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent GP practices
• •       University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
• •       University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust  
• •      Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• •       North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
• •       Staffordshire County Council (Social Care)
• •       Stoke-on-Trent City Council (Social Care)
• •       Continuing Healthcare services
• •       West Midlands Ambulance Service

Contact the practice for further information and how to opt out of sharing data with One Health and Care.