Common use of Information Sharing and Data Handling Clause in Contracts

Information Sharing and Data Handling. 10.1 The Council and the Health Board work along with all local authorities in Greater Glasgow and ▇▇▇▇▇ through the Joint Information & Health Systems Group (JIHS) to develop, review and maintain an Information Sharing Protocol. This will be available to the Integration Joint Board. The Parties shall work together to ensure that the Protocol is reviewed on an annual basis and that as part of this process the views of the Integration Joint Board will be canvassed and considered. 10.2 The Parties positively encourage their staff to share information appropriately about their service users when it benefits their care and when it is necessary to protect vulnerable adults or children. The document describes how the Parties will exchange information with each other - particularly information relating to identifiable living people, known legally as “personal data”. The purpose of the document is to explain why the partner organisations want to exchange information with each other and to put in place a framework which will allow this information to be exchanged in ways which respect the rights of the people the information is about, while recognising the circumstances in which staff must share personal data to protect others, without the consent of the individual. This Protocol complies with the laws regulating this, particularly the Data Protection Act 1998.