Key patient benefits

HealthSpace provides patients with:

• A permanent and stable place to securely store, access, contribute to and manage confidential health-related information
• Access to personalised health information to manage and facilitate their own care as they move across the country
• A window into their journey through the NHS enabling them to benefit from more choice and convenience by becoming a full partner in decisions about their health care and its delivery. "No decision about me without me."
• Greater choice for how their care is delivered to them
• A facility to communicate online with providers of care

Key clinical benefits

• Supporting improvements to clinical decision making and the quality and safety of patient care by providing clinicians from across care settings with access to better quality and more timely information about individual patients
• Facilitating communications between clinicians and patients, particularly with hard to reach and some vulnerable patients
• Helping to join up delivery of care around individual patients
• Supporting patients to manage their care supports the NHS to re-design and improve the way patient care is delivered