Orkney Practice ForumLaunch Event

4 July 2007

Elaine GrieveAssistant Chief Executive, Orkney Islands Council, Chair of Orkney Data Sharing Partnership and the

National Practice Forum

What’s this all about?

Tom McCabe, Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform wrote to all Chief Executives (NHS and local authority) and Chief Constables, on 12 January 2006 outlining the new governance structure for personal data sharing in Scotland, using the eCare Framework.

Building on the work of the former eCare Programme, the aim of the new structure is to ensure that Scottish Ministers and local partners could collaborate in the best way to facilitate inter-agency data sharing within a national framework of governance and an improved communications infrastructure.

Why? Better care, protection, advice and

assistance to the people of Scotland through the use of computers and communication technology.

Operating within a framework of consent, using a technical framework which enables secure multi-agency data sharing between professionals - such as doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers and the criminal justice system.

Data Sharing Partnerships One in each of the 14 health board areas Three year funding package released

against completion of “deliverables” Chairs meet twice a year as the Data

Sharing Forum to discuss issues of common concern

Orkney Data Sharing Partnership launched June 2006, Greg Whitton appointed Data Sharing Manager

National Practice Forum launched September 2006

Orkney Practice Forum launch July 2007

Why have a Forum?• provides a mechanism for consultation on national policy as it relates to electronic data sharing

• allows neutral reporting based upon professional experience and expertise as opposed to local or agency representation regarding data sharing

• provides an overview of practice implications for new policies and provide where appropriate realistic expectations in relation to data sharing.

Programme Data and Information Rights & Responsibilities Ken Macdonald, Information Commissioners’ Office

Data Sharing, The National Context Arlene Stuart, Scottish Executive Transformation

Technologies Division

National Practice Forum Brian Duffy, Co-ordinator National Practice Forum

The Children’s Agenda: “Getting It Right for Every Child” Mairi Tublerre, Scottish Executive Education Department

Timetable for the Day 10:20 Data and Information Rights & Responsibilities

10:50 Coffee

11:10 Data Sharing, The National Context

11:40 National Practice Forum

12:10 The Children’s Agenda—”Getting It Right for Every Child”

12:45 Questions, issues, observations

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

1400 Group Session

15:00 Questions, Answers, Feedback and Close

What we need from you … Should the Forum continue? If so,

frequency of meetings?

What are the general enablers and inhibitors to implementing electronic data sharing across agencies?

What is needed at Partnership level to effectively implement data sharing and its processes?