Your Care Record

Your Care Record (Person Held Record) is a yellow folder. It’s for adults in Sheffield who get support from professionals like social workers, doctors, nurses and therapists following an assessment or review of their health or social care needs.

 

The folder contains information about the person’s assessments and care plans. It includes contact details for people involved in the person’s care, and a record of who has visited the person. It also includes sections for different professionals to add in their notes about the person’s care.

 

 

All adults in Sheffield who are assessed/reviewed under the Single Assessment Process (SAP) and who go on to receive support in the community will be offered a folder. The folder won’t be offered if a person is, or will be, permanently living in a care home, or in receipt of care from adult mental health services.

 

The folder is useful because it holds lots of information about the person’s care in one place.

 

The information in the folder can quickly tell health or social care professionals involved in the person’s care about them and their needs. It can also tell their family, friends or other people involved in their care about the care and support they’re getting.

 

People can take their folder with them when they go to see their doctor or nurse, if they go for a hospital appointment or if they're are admitted to hospital.

 

The folder may be useful if the person has an individual budget and directs their own support.

 

It will also be useful if there’s an emergency and the person isn’t able to tell people about their needs.

 

The folder is divided into two parts.

 

Part A contains contact details for people involved in the person’s care, information people might need to know about the person in an emergency, information about the person’s assessment and care/support plan, and a record of the visits they’ve had from health and social care professionals. The information in Part A is for the person to keep.

 

Part B contains specialist records or notes that people have made about the person and their care. These documents might need to be removed from time to time, or when health or social care services stop. This is because some services have a legal duty to keep these records, but the person will still have a legal right to see these documents under the Data Protection Act 1998. This section may also contain health and social care information leaflets.

 

If you'd like to find out more about the content of Your Care Record, go to Your Care Record: contents.

 

The folder will be issued and/or contributed to by:

 

The person may ask other people or organisations involved in their care to contribute to their folder, such as carers, family, friends or independent or voluntary sector organisations.

 

Full list of the roles and responsibilities of issuing and contributing organisations.

 

More information about Your Care Record is available on the Your Care Record frequently asked questions page.

 

The Your Care Record leaflet is available to download from the bottom of this page.

 

You can also get more information from social workers, care managers, nurses, therapists and other health and social care staff in Sheffield, or contact: