Common use of Information Sharing and Data Handling Clause in Contracts

Information Sharing and Data Handling. 12.1 The Parties will revise their existing Information Sharing Protocol (ISP) to become a tri-partite agreement between Health Board, Council and Integration Joint Board. The current protocol is compliant with the Data Sharing Framework set by the Information Commissioner’s Office and already subsumes data sharing arrangements within Health and Social Care Partnerships. This will be submitted for approval by the existing governance structures of the Parties and to the Integration Joint Board within three months of the Integration Joint Board’s establishment. 12.2 The Parties further agree that it will be the responsibility of the Information Joint Board itself, within a further 9 months of signing the Information Sharing Protocol, to determine whether any more specific protocols, procedures and guidance require to be developed around operational processes of information sharing involving the Integration Joint Board and to set a timescale for implementation of such protocols, procedures or guidance. 12.3 The Information Sharing Protocol itself will be thereafter be reviewed jointly by the Parties at least annually or in the circumstances set out in section 8 of the Information Sharing Protocol and the Integration Joint Board.