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Read more about how we are taking action to sustain public trust in the use of information.
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Building confidence
in the use of information
Improving wellbeing through information and technology
Our health and care system can only work well if citizens are willing to share confidential information with the people looking after them
A strategy for the HSCIC 2013 – 15
Everyone using health and social care services is entitled to expect that information they entrust to care providers will be treated in strictest confidence
A guide to confidentiality in health and social care
Taking action to sustain public trust
Our work• Quarterly publication of our ‘Register of Data Releases’• Review of all data releases by predecessor organisations• Letter to all recipients of our data releases• Strengthening our board with three new Non-Executive Directors
Treating confidential information with respect
Guide to confidentiality• Part of government’s response to
Information Governance Review• Explains rules about the use and
sharing of confidential information• Designed to be easily accessible
and aid good decision making• Explains the responsibilities
organisation’s have for keeping information secure
• Currently being reviewed and updated
Bringing together specialist knowledge
Information Governance Alliance• Providing a single source of authoritative and credible guidance• Responding to a request from Dame Fiona Caldicott’s Independent
Oversight Panel• Other members include Department of Health and NHS England • Web site will provide access to best practice guidance and
resources
We have a statutory duty to ensure that the amount of time and effort involved in administration and bureaucracy is kept to a minimum
A strategy for the HSCIC 2013 – 15
Busting Bureaucracy audit• We collaborated with 16 Trusts in
Autumn 2013• Aim was to better understand
ways in which bureaucracy affects staff on the frontline
• Report to be published in June and makes 13 recommendations
• We are also producing a Toolkit as part of further guidance to help Trusts take action
Minimising the burden of bureaucracy
Reducing the burden of data collections
Burden Advice and Assessment Service
Replaces the Review of Central Returns function in July 2014. It will:
• Offer advice and set criteria to developers of new data collections, information standards and extractions
• Assess the level of burden incurred by introducing new standards, collections and extractions
• Advise the Standardisation Committee for Care Information (SCCI)• Conduct a 3 year rolling review of all national and local collections• Provide a simple and confidential way for providers to refer data
collections to the HSCIC for further scrutiny
It is widely acknowledged that the use of common information standards recording practices can bring a host of potential benefits
A strategy for the HSCIC 2013 – 15
Improved interoperability through standards
Developing data, information and technology standards• Members of the Standardisation Committee for Care Information• Oversees development, assurance and approval of information
standards and data collections• Developing data quality standards for collections and extractions• Interoperability Toolkit offers a set of common specifications,
frameworks and implementation guides• www.infostandards.org created to support information standards
community and acts as a repository for storing all standards• E-learning, implementation guidance and case studies also
available
Improving data quality
We assess data quality and provide tools to help improve it• Annual report published on the
quality of nationally submitted data• In October 2014 the third report
will be published• We provide a range of tools to help
organisations monitor, assess and improve their data quality
• SUS Data Quality Dashboard reports on quality for key fields in the Commissioning Datasets
• Can help increase accuracy of Payment by Results and Summary Hospital Mortality Indicators
Child Protection – Information Sharing
Helping health and care services work together to protect children• Project focuses on improving
protection of children previously identified as vulnerable
• Provides health professionals with prompt and easy access to key social care information
• Designed to help staff in NHS unscheduled settings assess whether a child is at risk
• Currently being tested in North East London, Wakefield, North West England and North Tyneside