Lancashire and South Cumbria Shared Care Record

What is the Lancashire and South Cumbria Shared Care Record (L&SC ShCR)?

The Lancashire & South Cumbria Shared Care Record (L&SC ShCR) is a digital shared care record solution that collates patient information from across Lancashire and South Cumbria into one place, making it easily accessible for health and care professionals to inform direct care from across geographies and organisations.

What information is NOT shared?

Information that would not usually be shared, such as some sensitive information around gender reassignment, sexual health, assisted conception and termination of pregnancy will not be shared within the L&SC ShCR. 

The system filters out sensitive information based on agreed rules and codes entered at source, so that this is not shared in the record.  Such sensitive information is excluded from retrieval following recommendations made by The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) ethics committee and the Joint GP IT Committee.

How does L&SC ShCR help you receive better care?

By seamlessly sharing health and care data from multiple systems, L&SC ShCR aims to create a more efficient, safer and patient-centred environment for care delivery.  More specifically we can:

  • Enable safer treatment: By providing professionals with instant access to essential data such as medications and allergies, even when patients can’t recall these details themselves.
  • Support emergency response: Allowing access to a patient’s complete medical history can be lifesaving during emergencies, enabling faster diagnosis and treatment.
  • Enhance patient-centred care: By consolidating vital data, we reduce the need for patients to repeat their history across different organisations. This gives professionals a more holistic view of each patient’s health and care journey.
  • Support informed and timely decisions: Professionals will have 24/7 access to recent patient histories, including tests and scans, facilitating informed, real-time decision-making – anytime, anywhere.
  • Save time and reduce administrative burden: By centralising key information, we free up professionals to focus on care delivery and achieve time and cost savings.
  • Ensure care continuity: As people move between different health and social care services, shared care records enable smoother transitions, improving the patient experience and maintaining consistency in care quality.

Participating care providers and hospitals

The L&SC ShCR is enabling clinical and care staff within the following organisations to access real time health and care information securely and safely.

  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Trust
  • Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
  • University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust

Participating social care / local authorities

The L&SC ShCR is enabling social care staff within the following local authorities to access real time health and care information across health and social care providers and between different IT systems, securely and safely.

  • Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council (not yet live)
  • Blackpool Council (not yet live)
  • Lancashire County Council

Participating general practices (GPs)

All practices across Lancashire and South Cumbria have been trained and are now live.

Participating care homes and nursing homes

  • Primrose Bank Residential Care Home

Participating hospices

  • St Catherine’s Hospice, Preston
  • Derian House Children’s Hospice, Chorley
  • Pendleside Hospice, Burnley
  • Rossendale Hospice, Rossendale
  • St John’s Hospice, Lancaster
  • Trinity Hospice & Brian House Children’s Hospice, Blackpool
  • East Lancashire Hospice, Blackburn
  • Queenscourt Hospice, Southport
  • St Mary’s Hospice, Ulverston

Other participating organisations and charities

  • Change Grow Live – voluntary sector organisation specialising in substance misuse
  • Delphi Medical – independent provider of drug and alcohol addiction treatment

The L&SC ShCR ensures your data is safe. No personal data is stored on the shared care record itself. Instead, it allows your data to be viewed in a non-persisted view, securely by authorised professionals directly involved in your care, from multiple health and care settings in real-time.

By law, all those working in the NHS or in those social care working as part of a health and care team, must respect privacy and keep all information safe. Your data can only be accessed over a secure health and care network and an audit trail is maintained to record access to records.

The L&SC ShCR is underpinned by an Information Sharing Agreement between the health and care organisations involved. This agreement supports the commitment to share information in a secure way and one that is compliant with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). This provides the legal basis to share information between health and care services when it is needed to deliver care.

The use of information is strictly controlled and used by healthcare providers in accordance with the Data Protection Legislation, the Human Rights Act 1998, the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality, the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice, the NHS Records Management Code of Practice and the NHS Information Security Code of Practice. All partners involved are compliant with the Data Security and Protection (DSP) toolkit.

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