CQC raises discharge concerns
Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according to the Care Quality Commission’s report on the state of care in England.
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Trusts ‘treat IG return as box-ticking’
Too many trusts are using the Information Governance Toolkit return as a tick-box exercise rather than as a means to ensure that confidential information is safe, a conference has heard. Tony Cobain, head of IM&T for Mersey Internal Audit and Assurance, told the CHKS annual user group conference in London that about a third of trusts […]
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Pharmacists given tight IG deadlines
Community pharmacists in England have been given until the end of March to assess their compliance with NHS Connecting for Health’s information governance requirements.
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Southampton rapped by ICO
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be rapped for breaching the Data Protection Act. Chief executive Mark Hackett was required to sign an undertaking to improve data security by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after an incident in which 33,000 patient records were stolen. The records had been downloaded onto a […]
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NIGB issues guide to changing records
The Department of Health is to drop its advice that patients unhappy with their health record must make a formal complaint before a comment can be added to it. The National information Governance Board said it had disagreed with the DH and the Department had agreed to change its guidance as a result. The health […]
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ICO spells out £500,000 penalty plans
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued guidance on how it will use its new powers to impose penalties of up to £500,000 for breaches of the Data Protection Act. The guidance says the ICO will only issue a monetary penalty notice if there has been a “serious” breach of the DPA, if the breach was […]
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DH shifts IT from ‘replace’ to ‘connect’
NHS informatics in England will move from a “replace all” to “connect all” philosophy, the Department of Health has announced. Informatics planning guidance for 2010-11 says an updated strategic direction for informatics will be developed over the coming months to reflect the change in emphasis. The guidance says a new direction has also been agreed for […]
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