Information Governance is alive and well within the NHS and is now
administered by the National Programme for Information Technology
(NPfIT), or Connecting For Health as it is now known. I'm involved at
this very moment in working on the annual online assessment whereby
Trust need to provide evidence of compliance with 66 standards across
all aspects of information management. There is also the DoH's
Confidentiality Code of Practice (2003) to consider.
Regards
John
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Sent: 19 January 2007 14:55
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Subject: [data-protection] NHS Info Sharing Principles - was School
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:26:37 -0000, Nick Landau
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wrote:
>Some years ago when I was going for Information Governance posts in the
>NHS there were IG Principles (I think) on the NHSIA (NHS Information
>Authority) website. Well the NHSIA is no longer, and the Principles as
>such no longer seem to be available. It seems another NHS flavour of
>the month. Otherwise
I
>would have quoted them.
Nick
The NHS now works by the Caldicott Principles (named after Dame Fiona
Caldicott, whose commission reported on info sharing in the NHS).
All NHS organsiations have a Caldicott Guardian - usually a board member
with a clinical background - and all transfers of patient data (other
than
for the direct care of that patient) must be formally approved by this
guardian.
The Caldicott Principles are:
1. Justifiable purpose
2. Only use patient identifiable info if absolutely necessary 3. Use
minimum necessary patient identifiable info 4. Access on a strict need
to know basis 5. Everyone handling patient identifiable info must be
aware of their
responsibilities
6. Every use of patient identifiable info must be lawful
Simon
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