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Information Governance contains the set of standards that the NHS must follow to make sure that it carries out its duty to maintain full and accurate records of the care provided and keep those records confidential, secure and accurate.
The NHS Care Record Guarantee explains the NHS commitment in England to only use your records in ways that respect your rights and promote your health and wellbeing.
Information governance contains the set of standards that the NHS must follow to make sure that it carries out its duty to:
Information governance is a framework or umbrella term. It informs the NHS and its partner organisations of the processes and procedures that it must have to ensure:
Published: 15/11/2010
To ensure a common approach to information governance audits across the NHS, the Department of Health commissioned this internal audit assurance framework for the Information Governance Toolkit (IGT) self-assessments. This audit framework will help NHS organisations to focus on what they need to do to respect patient rights, sustain public trust, improve healthcare outcomes and maximise the benefits that can be gained from high quality information and modern information technologies.
Published: 29/04/2008
Guidance on the range of legal and professional obligations that affect the management, use and disclosure of primarily NHS information, but also includes some social care requirements.
