Friendship at Home provides many services and can offer a variety of advice and support for our Members, Staff and other organisations. Our Data Protection and Data Retention Policy and Procedures ensure Friendship at Home complies with all aspects of Data Protection Laws, including the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). All information regarding Data Protection is contained within our ‘Staff Data Protection and Data Retention Policy and Procedure’. Please click here to see a copy of this policy.
Information Sharing across the NHS Humber & North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board Health & Care Partnership:
Information will be shared amongst partners to support strategic, tactical and operational level decision making for the benefit of the people of the NHS Humber & North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. Partners in the NHS Humber & North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board may share information for the following purposes:
- Understanding demand for public
- Determining the heaviest users of public
- Ensuring that appropriate agencies are engaged within their statutory remit with individuals.
- Commissioning partners to undertake interventions within their statutory
- Improved shared decision making at a strategic, tactical and operational level, specifically at an individual person / patient level for direct care
- Monitoring the effectiveness of
Each flow of information will be supported by a data protection impact assessment. Only the minimum data required to fulfil the purpose will be shared between Partners and where possible aggregate annonymised or pseudonymised data will be used. If Partners need to share identifiable data they will, wherever possible, obtain consent from an individual prior to the sharing to satisfy Common Law however there may be times when this is not achievable and the benefits of sharing outweighs obtaining consent in advance. As soon as is practicable, informed consent will be obtained.
The organisation wanting to share data is responsible for obtaining and recording informed consent. If consent is subsequently withdrawn that agency is responsible for informing partners promptly.
Partners across the NHS Humber & North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board include but are not limited to East Riding Health and Care Partnership, General Practices, Acute Trusts, Social Care Providers and Voluntary Sector Providers within the East Riding geographical area.
