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How to Access to Trust’s Clinical Information Systems

Reference: 25-26232

Date response sent: 20/08/2025

Details of enquiry

Please provide the following information:

  1. Access to Testing Clinical Information Systems
  • What is the approval process by which an external organisation may apply or request to connect with the trust’s test clinical systems of record. (e.g. EMR, EHR, PACS)
  • Which internal teams, roles, or committees are responsible for approving such a connection?
  • What steps are involved in obtaining the necessary permissions or agreements to establish such a connection?
  • What is the entry point for this process? e.g. email address or webform.

 

  1. Access to Production Clinical Information Systems
  • What is the approval process by which an external organisation may apply or request to connect with the trust’s production clinical systems of record. (e.g. EMR, EHR, PACS)
  • Which internal teams, roles, or committees are responsible for approving such a connection?
  • What steps are involved in obtaining the necessary permissions or agreements to establish such a connection?
  • What is the entry point for this process? e.g. email address or webform.

Response sent

This Trust does not allow external organisations, to access our internal Clinical or other Information systems.  The Trust has very rigorous regimes in place to enforce their security, and we do not have a testing environment for Clinical systems.

Accordingly we can confirm that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust does not have any approval nor decision making processes to manage applications or requests from external bodies to connect with the Trust’s EPR (electronic patient record system), and the Trust does not have a dedicated Picture Archiving and Comms System (PACS).

As you can see from the above, your questions are not applicable to The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust as we do not provide external access to any Trust systems to which this information would apply

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist NHS mental health trust with a focus on training and education, as well as providing a full range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological services via talking therapies. We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities, and do not have an A&E department

 

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