Policy and Legal Influences on Inter‐Organisational Information Sharing in Health and Social Care Services

Abstract

Given pressures both to share and to protect personal information in inter‐agency service provision, this article reviews the ways in which policy and legal influences shape interorganisational information exchange and highlights key developments in government guidance that are designed to promote better information sharing.

Citation

Richardson, S. and Asthana, S. (2005), "Policy and Legal Influences on Inter‐Organisational Information Sharing in Health and Social Care Services", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200500019