The Yorkshire and Humber Care Record

The Yorkshire and Humber Care Record is a digital regional shared care record and will provide health and social care professionals directly involved in your care access to the most up-to-date information about you. It does this by sharing appropriate information from your medical and care records between health and social care services across the Yorkshire and Humber region.

At the moment, every health and social care organisation that you use has a different set of patient records for you. These records may duplicate information, or one record might hold information about your treatment, care and support that another one does not.

Across the Yorkshire and Humber region, a virtual shared care record system has been developed, called the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record. Individual organisations across the region share data into this record. This will include some key health and social care information about you. The information is taken from other medical records you may have such as your GP record, hospital records or social care records. Currently, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are not sharing information into the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record but we are viewing clinical information from other organisations across the region using this record, in order to support clinical care.

Find out more about the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record.

 

What kind of information will be shared in the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record?

Currently, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are not sharing information into the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record. We are accessing it only to be able to view data that other organisations across the region are sharing.

The Yorkshire and Humber Care Record will hold certain information about each service user, depending on what individual organisations choose to share. This is an evolving picture and will change as more organisations go on board with sharing data in this way. When you are being treated or cared for by the NHS or adult social care services the health and social care professionals looking after you will have access to more information, which may include:

  • your address and telephone number – so we have one set of contact details for you
  • your diagnosis list – to make sure your health or social care professionals have an accurate and complete record of your care
  • your medications – so everyone treating you can see what medicines you’ve currently or been prescribed
  • your allergies – to make sure you aren’t prescribed or given any medicines you could have an adverse reaction to
  • your test results – to speed up your treatment and care
  • your referrals, clinic letters and discharge information – to make sure the people caring for you have all the information they need about other treatment you’re having elsewhere.
Can I opt out of Yorkshire and Humber Care Record?

Yes, you can choose to opt out of the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record. It is your choice but sharing your medical and social care information through the Yorkshire and Humber Care record will make it easier to provide the best quality care and support for you. If you have any doubts about your records being shared you can talk to your GP in the first instance.

You can also contact the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record directly by letter or email:

Yorkshire and Humber Care Record
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Willerby Hill, Beverley Road
Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire
HU10 6ED

Email the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record

Or you can contact them on their website.

If you do decide to opt out, this means that you will still be provided with excellent care, but when care professionals need to access information from your medical history they will do so via traditional methods, for example, telephone calls.

Page last updated: 9th Dec 2025 2:15pm