The Leeds Care Record is a read only secure electronic health and social care patient record system.
The Leeds Care Record pulls key information from several different health and social care records and stores it in one combined record. This enables health and social care professionals to find all the key information for your care in one place.
At the moment, every health and social care organisation that you use has a different set of patient or service user records for you. These records may duplicate information, or one record might hold information about your treatment, care and support that another one doesn’t.
To provide the best care to you as a patient or service user it is essential that health and social care professionals have access to the most up-to-date information.
The Leeds Care Record holds certain information about each patient. When you are being treated or cared for by the NHS or social care services the health and social care professionals looking after you have the most up-to-date information:
- Address and telephone number – so we have one set of contact details for you
- Allergies – to make sure you aren’t prescribed or given any medicines you could have an adverse reaction to
- Care plans – so that your wishes are adhered to in relation to your care
- Consultation summary – a summary view of your consultation notes
- Problems and Diagnosis list – to make sure your health or social care professional have an accurate and complete record of your care
- Medications – so everyone treating you can see what medicines you’ve currently or been prescribed
- Referrals, clinic letters and discharge information – to make sure the people caring for you have all the information they need about other treatment you’re having elsewhere
- Test results – to speed up your treatment and care
By law, everyone working in, or on behalf of, the NHS and Adult Social Care must follow strict Information Governance rules designed to respect your privacy and keep all information about you safe.
The Leeds Care Record is held on a secure, encrypted system at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals. The system keeps a record of everyone who has accessed a patient record, the time and date when they accessed it and the information they were viewing. The laws on data protection are clear and we take them very seriously.
We regularly check to make sure that only people who need to see your patient record are viewing it. Your medical records will still be confidential. They will only be looked at by people who are directly involved in your care. Your information isn’t shared with anyone who doesn’t need it to provide treatment, care and support to you. Your details will be kept safe and won’t be made public, passed on to a third party who is not directly involved in your care or used for advertising or sold.
Yes, you have the right to opt out of your Leeds Care Record being shared. However, if staff require access to the information shared on Leeds Care Record to provide safe individual care, they are legally allowed access.
For further information or to opt out you can contact the Information Governance team by emailing: [email protected].
Leeds Care Record is only available to registered Health and Social Care users in Leeds. However patients have the right under Article 15 of GDPR to request access to any information that an organisation holds about them.
Each individual organisation that contributes information to your Leeds Care Record has a responsibility to handle these “Subject Access Requests”.
Should you wish to access your records this way, contact the organisation who holds the part of the record you are interested in directly, e.g., your GP, hospital, mental health trust or social care team.
For more information on obtaining a copy of your own LTHT health records please see the Freedom of Information Website page on our Leeds NHS Trust Website.