I wish I hadn't seen that link to www.igt.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk on a Friday afternoon! So many questions arise.
At the bottom of the Help page it says this:
When does the information governance assessment have to be done?
An assessment can be started at any time after a new version of the IG Toolkit is released (June/July each year) but in all cases the final submission must be made online by 31st March each year. NHS organisations are also required to complete interim assessments during the year - deadlines for interim submissions are publicised when a new version of the Toolkit is released.
The work necessary to make improvements or to maintain compliance should be an on-going process and not left till the year end.
Final submission assessment scores reported by organisations are used by the Care Quality Commission to risk assess outcome 21 - records (and other standards as appropriate) of Essential standards of quality and safety (PDF, 2429 Kb) - see page 170.
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It seems to me that health bodies and a very wide range of associated entities must carry out an assessment every year, by March 31st, and interim assessments too.
Are they complying with this? Where are their reports on the search page of this site?
I'm in Wales of course so one big question is whether this applies here too.
Brian
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