Common use of Shared Care Clause in Contracts

Shared Care. 4.4.1 Shared care agreements are a specific approach to the seamless prescribing and monitoring of medicines which enables patients to receive care in an integrated and convenient manner. Shared care is a particular form of the transfer of clinical responsibility from a hospital or specialist service to general practice in which prescribing by the primary care prescriber, or other primary care prescriber, is supported by a shared care agreement.