GP connect NDSA
GP Connect
Overview
GP Connect helps clinicians gain access to GP patient records during interactions away from a patient’s registered practice and makes their medical information available to appropriate health and social care professionals when and where they need it, to support the patient’s direct care.
From a privacy, confidentiality and data protection perspective, GP Connect provides a method of secure information transfer and reduces the need to use less secure or less efficient methods of transferring information, such as email or telephone.
• GP Connect can only be used for direct care purposes
• • Individuals can opt out of their GP patient record being shared via GP Connect by contacting their GP practice
• • Access to GP Connect is governed by role-based access control (RBAC) and organisational controls; only people who need to see the GP patient record for a patient’s direct care should be able to see it
• • All organisations using GP Connect must comply with the National Data Sharing Arrangement (NDSA) and end-user agreement that sets out their responsibilities and obligations
• • All individuals who have access to the GP patient record using GP Connect must agree to terms and conditions of use
• All systems that allow the use of GP Connect must undergo a robust compliance process and the organisations involved must sign a connection agreement holding them to high standards of information security
Type of organisations that use GP Connect
Examples of organisations that may wish to use GP connect to view GP patient records include:
• GP surgeries that patients are not registered at - for example, if they need to see a doctor when they are away from home
• secondary care (hospitals) if they need to attend A&E or are having an operation
• GP hubs/primary care networks (PCNs)/integrated care systems (ICSs), partnerships between healthcare providers and local authorities
• local 'shared care' record systems
• ambulance trusts, so paramedics can view GP patient records in an emergency
• healthcare professionals such as community services
• acute and emergency care service providers
• NHS 111
• pharmacies
• optometrists
• dentistry
• mental health trusts
• hospices
• adult and children’s social care
• care and nursing homes
Details regarding how GP Connect can be used in various care settings can be found at NHS England’s GP Connect in your organisation pages.
GP Connect: Access Record
GP Connect: Access Record allows authorised clinicians to access GP patient records held on their practice system. Access Record has two methods of retrieving data from the patient record:
1. Access Record: HTML enables a read-only view of a patient’s record regardless of the practice clinical system. The record can be viewed within another care setting including another GP practice, an urgent care call centre, or an acute care organisation via an accredited system or application.
2. Access Record: Structured provides access to a patient’s record in a machine-readable, structured, and coded format. Structured data allows the consuming system to import and process patient data provided that it's only used for direct care, and the system meets the specified GP Connect consumer requirements, including information governance and clinical safety standards.
https://transparency.ndsp.gpconnect.nhs.uk/Name
NDSA link