NHS App: guidance and support:

• Introducing NHS App (also in British Signed Language): Meet your NHS App (BSL) (youtube.com)

• How to register for the NHS App (also in British Signed Language): NHS App - NHS Login Using Photo ID (BSL) (youtube.com)

• Step-by-step videos explaining each function: How to use the NHS App - YouTube

• Support with technical issues: Technical issues with the NHS App - NHS App help and support - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

• How to activate notifications in the NHS App: Managing NHS App notifications - NHS App help and support - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Increasingly, patient medical data is shared e.g. between GP surgeries and District Nursing, hospital and other secondary care providers in order to give clinicians access to the most up to date patient information.

The systems we operate require that any sharing of medical information is consented to by patients beforehand. Patients must consent to sharing of the data held by a health provider out to other health providers and must also consent to which of the other providers can access their data.

e.g. it may be necessary to share data held in GP practices with district nurses but the local podiatry department would not need to see it to undertake their work. In this case, patients would allow the surgery to share their data, they would allow the district nurses to access it but they would not allow access by the podiatry department. In this way access to patient data is under patients' control and can be shared on a 'need to know' basis.