Health and Social Care Staff involved in your treatment and care may share information with each other about you only when necessary. This could include:
- Family Practitioner Services
- Inpatient Hospital staff
- Outpatient Hospital staff
- Community Services staff
This could include:
- Your GP
- Pharmacists
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Social Workers
- Allied Health Professionals, like Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Health Visitors and other Health and Social Care Professionals
- Health and Social Care administrative staff
Health and Social Care Staff involved in your treatment and care may also share information with other organisations in line with legislation and data sharing requirements. This could include:
- Regulators – Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA)
- Government Agencies – Police Service of Northern Ireland, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Probation Board Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Housing Executive
- Commissioned Services – Nursing Homes, Residential Homes, Charities
- National Registries– National Cancer Registry, National Joint Registry
- Independent Service Providers
- Other Health and Social Care Organisations – Public Health Agency, Business Services Organisation, Department of Health, Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
This list is not exhaustive.
All Health and Social Care staff are obliged within their contracts of employment, professional codes of conduct and by the common law Duty of Confidentiality to ensure that all personal data is treated with the highest possible levels of confidentiality. Contractors and agency staff are also bound by contractual confidentiality obligations in line with data protection legislation.