Records are an essential part of health and care. Records include:
- the notes which the health and care professionals caring for you take about your care
- information which is used to run the NHS and social care (for example human resources records of the staff that care for you and the minutes of your hospital’s board meetings)
- information used for research (for example information about clinical trials)
To help ensure that these records are all managed consistently across England, we comply with the NHS Records Management Code of Practice.
Further information on the NHS Records Management Code of Practice.