Privacy concerns were also expressed in an Irish mixed-methods study of public attitudes towards using health information from GP records for research, yet 89.5%% of respondents suggested that they would still agree to their GP sharing details with researchers [ 41].
Participants at the 2011 GP shared information on their projects and discussed a global plan of action to enhance multisectoral collaboration on DRR for health to protect lives and livelihoods (WHO 2011) and provided a launchpad for the discussions regarding the inclusion of DRR in the post-2015 development goals (WHO 2013).
Papers reporting varying views of how the GP shared-care model operates using the PHR are summarised in Table 6.
Routinely collected data provided limited information on GP shared care arrangements (MC 14% vs. SC 34%) with interview data suggesting the proportion of MC women receiving shared care was higher.
Further research into preferred personal access by pregnant women would give more insight into completing the picture of information important in a GP shared-care setting [ 2].
In a GP shared-care arrangement, women visit the MH routinely at 'booking in' (~12-16 ~12-16 and again at the 36–40 weeksgestandon period.
Eligible data for the study were obtained from the hospital data set pertaining to women who participated in the GP shared-care maternity model of care who were over 18 years of age, able to understand and speak English.
Using the PHR in a GP shared-care model has been a successful initiative in integrating care and providing opportunities to link information between health care providers and women.
Women allocated to the control group can choose from the standard hospital options for care which include midwives clinic antenatally; GP shared care antenatally; followed by general public hospital care in labour and in the postnatal ward.
Within public sector facilities, several models of care including general practitioner (GP) shared care, team midwifery care, caseload (or group practice) midwifery care, conventional public care, and birth centre care may be available at a birth facility.
Access to best practice maternity care is a major priority on the Australian national health agenda and to address the fragmentation of data currently available, a maternity EHR has been developed and is trialled in many sites, including a general practice (GP) shared-care setting [ 4, 5].
