Health & Social Care Information Sharing - A Strategic Framework 2014-2020

ANNEX A - Key Groups and Boards

This strategic framework has been developed for approval by three main groups:

Information Sharing Board (ISB): formed in November 2011, it originally operated under the title Data Sharing Technologies Board. Its early work was focussed on the decommissioning of the National eCare infrastructure and re-focusing activities to support outcomes rather than technology, ensuring that developments are flexible and integrated with existing and planned business processes and systems. A wide range of work has already been supported by the ISB, including portal developments in Lothian and the AYRshare developments in Ayrshire. The ISB's remit is to:

1. support improved collaborative working in the context of both the integration of health and social care and in the context of the implementation of GIRFEC
2. develop support for improved collaborative working in support of better outcomes for patients and service users in the context of implementation of GIRFEC
3. develop a health and social care information sharing strategy (this document)
4. manage a series of legacy national technical and other assets, and contracts.

Local Government ICT Board: this board is overseeing the implementation of the Local Government ICT Strategy which has three core principles:

1. What we do is customer driven.
2. It will be simple, standardised and, if possible, automated.
3. We will first look to reuse and share.

The first links strongly with putting people at the centre of their care, the second with the approach to standards-based developments, and the third supports using existing local technology solutions to meet local needs, as well as sharing good practice across Scotland,.

eHealth Strategy Board: this board oversees the IT direction for the NHS and the implementation of the eHealth Strategy 2011-2017, which acknowledges that joint working between health, social care and other partners is crucial for the delivery of seamless services. Its strategic aims are focussed on improving efficiency, supporting self-management, patient safety and integrating care.

In addition, this strategic framework has become an integral part of the overall Data Strategy being developed by the Data Management Board. The Data Management Board provides strategic direction across all data activity to ensure that across Scotland the best use of data in all forms is being made to support growth and improve public services, and that public trust is maintainedInformation Sharing Board - Governance diagram