Peter Ashe is an information consultant with NHS Scotland (National Services). He first published on ‘Recording, ethics and data protection’ in New Information Technology in Management and Practice (Horobin, G. and Montgomery, S. [eds], Kogan Page, 1986). As a member of the Association of Directors of Social Services Information Management Group (1983-2004) he contributed to most of the UK national initiatives in this area. He has worked locally on information sharing between health and social care since the early 1990s, leading the Scottish national eCare information sharing programme in its first, experimental, phase and being responsible for the early introduction of information sharing protocols between partner organisations. He began to.
