Share for Care set to help provide residents with better, safer and quicker local health and care services

Residents across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) will receive even better, safer and quicker care from local health and care organisations thanks to the rollout of Share for Care – our confidential electronic record sharing system.

Share for Care enables doctors, nurses and other health and care professionals to view important information about you via a secure digital record, helping them to provide you with even better, safer and quicker care. The information available to view includes your contact details, medical history, test results, medications, allergies and any support you’ve had from social care or mental health services.

Share for Care will allow information held on individual record keeping systems to be shared between GP practices and hospital emergency departments in the first instance. It will then be rolled out to other health and care services who look after you, such as social care professionals and paramedics, in the case of an emergency.

The BLMK Integrated Care System (ICS), the local health and care partnership for the region, is launching a campaign about Share for Care, what it means and the benefits to both residents and health and care professionals.

For further information, including frequently asked questions, please visit our website: www.blmkhealthandcarepartnership.org/sharedrecord