Care.data GP toolkit

care.dataThis toolkit, produced by NHS England, aims to help GP Practices raise patient awareness of  plans to extract coded GP data as part of the care.data programme, It also explains what to do if a patient objects to the use of personal confidential data beyond their direct care.

Care.data will make increased use of information from medical records with the intention of improving healthcare for example by ensuring that timely and accurate data are made available to NHS commissioners and providers so that they can better design integrated services for patients. In the future, approved researchers may also benefit.

The toolkit includes:

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