John Farenden, ex-NHS England Senior Programme Lead, now an Ethical Healthcare Associate, led an NHS Confederation webinar sharing the key issues faced by ICSs regarding data sharing and what the current Data Bill might mean for NHS care.

Watch back this webinar to: 

  • Understand the current data obligations and current operating context for ICSs, including many of the technical, ethical and legal challenges ICSs face with data sharing
  • Explore the different ideas around protecting and utilising patient data
  • Best practice learning from an ICS that has been able to overcome many of these challenges to make an effective use of their data.

In this session, John asks why we are struggling to join up data across services – is it because of technology? Information Governance concerns? Cultural issues in the system? A lack of national leadership?  

He shares patient stories of what can happen when clinicians cannot access data from across services and the opportunities that could arise from The Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently going through Parliament. He also discusses tips for ICSs in ensuring local systems understand the implications of adopting standards and acting together. 

John looks to Catalonia, Indonesia, Estonia and Australia for best practice examples and how the London Care Record means patients don’t have to repeat their medical histories, enables safe prescribing, avoids unnecessary tests, and saves frontline staff time. 

John also answers audience questions around compliance with the Bill; the ever-increasing information security threats; how to integrate services such as pathology to enable interoperability with shared care records; and improving public trust in data sharing.

Webinar Series 

This webinar is part of a series of three that Ethical hosted with NHS Confederation. You can watch the other two here:

User Centred Design: Empowering Digital Transformation in the NHS

Digital and data workshop: frontline digitisation and improving EPR usability

Get in touch 

If you would like to know more about how we can help with digital transformation, you can find our services here or contact the team at info@ethicalhealthcare.org.uk