The Great North Care Record will:

  • Be compliant with all relevant information governance legislation (e.g. GDPR, Section 251) and be flexible to changes in legislation
  • Provide a clear, dynamic and usable mechanism for managing citizen permission for both, direct care and research purposes
  • Enable a clear, dynamic and usable mechanism for managing information sharing agreements
  • Provide a secure and robust mechanism for managing access to information
  • Contain an audit trail to check who has accessed the system, and for what purpose. This would include pro-active alerting of access to the citizen where they have concerns
  • Support ‘for your eyes only’ functionality based on data sharing agreements and permission guidelines
  • Enable privacy officers and patients/citizens to be notified of any breaches in privacy
  • Enable better engagement between professionals and citizens
  • Be easy to use and understand for professionals using the systems.