My Care Record enables health and care professionals to access information about you to improve your care.

Providing you with:

• Better coordinated and seamless care
• Quicker diagnosis and treatment
• Less paperwork and less repetition
• Fewer unnecessary clinical tests
• More accurate prescriptions
• More time to spend on clinical care
• Better health and care planning

My Care Record is an approach to improving care by joining up health and care information in our region. Wherever possible, health and care professionals will be able to access your records from other services when it is needed for your care. For example, a doctor treating you in hospital or a nurse working in the community could view the information they need from your GP record.

Certain information – that doesn’t identify you – will also be used to help improve services and plan for the future.

More information, including answers to frequently asked questions and a list of the organisations that are taking part can be found on the My Care Record website.

A full privacy notice which explains how your information may be used is available on the Your Information page of the My Care Record website.