DIP & PPO Information Sharing
This short briefing provides a high level summary of the ethos of information sharing and covers three areas where understanding the parameters of information sharing are vital:
- Information sharing has an important role to play in ensuring effective continuity of care. With the informed consent of the individual, it is possible - and beneficial to the client - to pass relevant information about their treatment to other organisations involved in their care. This needs to be done within the boundaries set by a number of pieces of legislation, and within local arrangements.
- DIP and PPO interventions can only be effective if those involved with an individual are able to share information necessary to ensure an appropriate response to that person's compliance or failure to comply with what has been legally required of them.
- Information sharing also has an important role to play in intelligence gathering, for example in identifying particular crime hot spots. Where aggregated information is used for this purpose so that the client cannot be identified, the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) will not apply as it will not be personal data. The use of non-aggregated (i.e. individual) data is permissible where there is informed consent from the client but should otherwise be limited to those cases where such action can be clearly justified.
Date: Wed Sep 12 14:33:09 BST 2007
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