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Enhancing Information Governance in NHS: The Essential Toolkit for Quality Care

The Information Governance Toolkit is crucial for NHS organizations aiming to enhance care quality through effective information management. It supports four main objectives: promoting high-quality care, fostering collaboration among staff, providing necessary tools and support, and enabling systematic performance improvement. Compliance with key legislation such as the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, and the Confidentiality Code of Practice is essential. The Toolkit outlines 163 requirements across 10 initiatives, offering a clear route to achieving best practices in information governance.

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Enhancing Information Governance in NHS: The Essential Toolkit for Quality Care

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  1. Using the Information Governance Toolkit Paul Couldrey

  2. Paul Couldrey Confidentiality and Security Manager Dudley Health Community

  3. Information Governance • Supports 4 main aims: • To support the provision of high quality care by promoting the effective and appropriate use of information. • To encourage responsible staff to work closely together, preventing duplication of effort and enabling more efficient use of resources. • To develop support arrangements and provide staff with appropriate tools and support to enable them to discharge their responsibilities to consistently high standards. • To enable organisations to understand their own performance and manage improvement in a systematic and effective way.

  4. IG Toolkit Requirements Encompass Legislation/Guidance Required To Be Met By PCT • Data Protection Act 1998 • Freedom of Information Act 2000 • The Confidentiality Code of Practice • BS7799 • HSC 1999/053 ‘For the Record’ • Controls Assurance • Data Accreditation

  5. NHSIA – IG Toolkit • Provides route map to assist in achievement of best practice for Information Governance within NHS Organisations • Provides a series of easy to follow Requirements for NHS Organisations to use to build into Strategy documents which will, over time, achieve best practice in Information Governance

  6. PCT - 163 Requirements !!! • 163 Requirements split into 10 initiatives • Cross reference indicated some requirements cross match between 2 or more initiatives

  7. 10 Initiatives 5 Projects 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: FOIInformation Security Health Records Caldicott Confidentiality Code of Practice Data Protection Controls Assurance: IM&T Records Management IG Management Information Quality Assurance

  8. IG Toolkit Project Management

  9. Paul Couldrey Confidentiality and Security Manager Dudley Health Community 01384 366078

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