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Information for Social Care

Social Care Information Policy is driven by wider objectives supporting the integration of health and social care services for adults. During the period up to 2010 efforts will be concentrated on supporting pilots and testing systems which enable health and local authority adult social care information systems to effectively communicate with each other. These will include pilots to support the Common Assessment Framework for Adults and Whole Systems Demonstrator sites to improve services for people with long term conditions.  

Policy information

Use of NHS number in social care

Ministers have decided that the NHS number may be used in social care for the purpose of linking social care as well as NHS records. This statement sets out the policy on which the decision was based.

Electronic Social Care Record

This briefing defines the content of the Electronic Social Care Record (ESCR) and outlines the background and current developments in implementation.

National Electronic Social Care Record survey report

This document presents the findings of a national survey of the status of Electronic Social Care Records (ESCR) in England carried out in 2006 to 2007.

Defining the Electronic Social Care Record

Post-consultation document - January 2004: Final version 7.2

Social care information governance

Details of the Information for Social Care activities in the arena of information governance.

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