Information Sharing in Mental Health

Information sharing is totally vital for crisis and integrated mental health services” Dr Geraldine Strathdee, National Clinical Director for Mental Health.

The sharing of information may be dif?cult, but is often crucial to the ongoing wellbeing of both patients and carers….Healthcare generally has increasingly been seen as a partnership between providers, patients and their families. However, in mental health there are differences of opinion about which information can be shared with carers. The sensitive nature of mental health problems means that there can be particular dif?culties in relation to con?dentiality and the sharing of information.