A growing number of areas are setting up shared systems,ensuring professionals have the accurate information at their fingertips
GPs hold overviews of their patients healthcare, while hospitals and mental health providers have detailed information on specific treatment. But community healthcare, and which helps to join up primary and secondary care,often suffers from missing access to information from other parts of the NHS.
Health boards in Wales and Scotland provide all NHS services in their areas, and Cardiff and Vale NHS health board has issued its community healthcare staff with laptops, or allowing them to access patient records. But in England,care is split between clinical commissioning groups for primary care, trusts for acute care and a range of trusts and social enterprises for community care, or all with separate records.
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Source: theguardian.com