Shared Care Records under the new ICS / ICB System
Dear Shropshire and Telford Local Medical Committee,
I'm writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to ask that you please disclose to me details of the shared care records created under your ICB (I'm aware that as this is a transitional process, that in some instances trusts or CCGs have been copied into this Email, as it's not entirely clear the status of establishment of all, hence my reason for doing so.
My questions:
1. how many of the ICS/ICBs are created already, and operational / is yours
2. How many / has yours created shared care records?
3. Who were the systems that these records sit on created by, as in which third party software provider (for instance, Graphnet)
4. Who creates the Shared Care Records themselves, ie GPs, Hospitals, Social Care Providers (if so, please name them for your area).
5. Who, outside of the NHS has access to them? For instance; DwP, Immigration, Local Councils, GPs, the local Police, Social Care, or private health providers (if so, this last question is in two parts - firstly a confirmation or denial that this is or is not the case - then a list of the private providers you work with please).
6. How do people opt out of this if they want to?
7. How have people been told they can opt out, as in, by Email, Phone, leaflet in local GP surgery. and what % of people that your ICB (or relevant body) covered have been informed directly about this restructuring or their records, and to stress, how have they been most importantly - please list any and all initiatives for this.
8. How many opt outs have their been?
9. Is awareness for the ShCRs being done at any point on a national level, or as stated above, purely through brochures inside local clinics - please explain any national drive there is to inform people of this new set of decisions, and what the response has been to it (ie both the methods people have responded by, and amount of people who have responded)
Yours faithfully,
Max Colbert
The Citizens
You recently contacted Dr Rummens who is now retired. I have replaced
him as Secretary to the Shropshire and Telfor LMC, and he has
forwarded your FOI request dated 14^th June 2022. The Shropshire and
Telford LMC is not a public body as listed in FOI Act . Your specific
questionjs appear to relate to information which is not held by
ourselves, and to which we have no access, indeed your questions are
very broad and appear to relate to a much larger sphere of influence
than our own. I wondered have you sent this to us in error as you
suggest is possible in your email.
Yours
Kieran McCormack
Kieran McCormack FRCGP GMC: 3343278
Shropshire and Telford LMC Secretary
GP Partner Pontesbury and Worthen Medical Practice
07946 390711
From: The Citizens <[FOI #871179 email]>
Date: 14 June 2022 at 4:46:35 pm BST
To: "RUMMENS, Ian (NHS SHROPSHIRE, TELFORD AND WREKIN CCG)"
<[Shropshire and Telford Local Medical Committee request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Shared Care Records under
the new ICS / ICB System
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Dear Shropshire and Telford Local Medical Committee,
I'm writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to ask
that you please disclose to me details of the shared care records
created under your ICB (I'm aware that as this is a transitional
process, that in some instances trusts or CCGs have been copied into
this Email, as it's not entirely clear the status of establishment of
all, hence my reason for doing so.
My questions:
1. how many of the ICS/ICBs are created already, and operational / is
yours
2. How many / has yours created shared care records?
3. Who were the systems that these records sit on created by, as in
which third party software provider (for instance, Graphnet)
4. Who creates the Shared Care Records themselves, ie GPs, Hospitals,
Social Care Providers (if so, please name them for your area).
5. Who, outside of the NHS has access to them? For instance; DwP,
Immigration, Local Councils, GPs, the local Police, Social Care, or
private health providers (if so, this last question is in two parts -
firstly a confirmation or denial that this is or is not the case -
then a list of the private providers you work with please).
6. How do people opt out of this if they want to?
7. How have people been told they can opt out, as in, by Email, Phone,
leaflet in local GP surgery. and what % of people that your ICB (or
relevant body) covered have been informed directly about this
restructuring or their records, and to stress, how have they been most
importantly - please list any and all initiatives for this.
8. How many opt outs have their been?
9. Is awareness for the ShCRs being done at any point on a national
level, or as stated above, purely through brochures inside local
clinics - please explain any national drive there is to inform people
of this new set of decisions, and what the response has been to it
(ie both the methods people have responded by, and amount of people
who have responded)
Yours faithfully,
Max Colbert
The Citizens
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