How have you involved patients in how the Great North Care Record has been developed?

We are committed to listening to the views of people living in our region. 

We commissioned two large pieces of research to understand how patients feel about their healthcare record being shared. One was a YouGov poll of 800 local people, the other was 25 focus groups held around the region to get into the details and hear about people’s ideas, concerns and issues. Both reports were commissioned and analysed independently by researchers at Teesside and Newcastle Universities.