Webcast: Integrating Health and Social Care: blending information, processes and technologies in partnerships

21st Sept 2016  Time: 11:00am Watch the webcast: Integrating Health and Social Care: blending information, processes and technologies in partnerships  Since April 2016, NHS and local authorities across Scotland have been working towards the integrated provision of health and social care within their territorial areas and over 30 partnerships have been set up already for this […]

BCS Information Governance Webcasts

Series of Information Governance Webcasts This series of webcast is focused on arising topics of interests for organisations and practitioners finding the balance between extracting value from information and reducing information risks. This series Information Governance (IG) lectures involves more than the traditional records management topics, incorporating information security and data protection, privacy, compliance, information […]

UK government confirms that GDPR will be implemented

UK government confirms that GDPR will be implemented The government has confirmed that the UK will implement the General Data Protection Regulation. The Secretary of State Karen Bradley MP told the Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee: “We will be members of the EU in 2018 and therefore it would be expected and quite normal […]

Health & Social Care Information Sharing Strategic Framework

The focus of this Information Sharing Strategic Framework is on sharing information in support of people’s interactions with care services. Information sharing, to meet the needs of people, practitioners and organisations, is essential to support Scotland’s commitment to integrated, person-centred care, across adult and children’s services.  

Who should be involved in drafting these agreements?

The Toolkit is design to record decisions at different levels: strategic to operational; hence a variety of people with different knowledge and decision making power must participate at different points in time. Someone should take the lead on coordinating the involvement of the relevant people, e.g. if it is part of a new project, it […]

Impact in re-negotiation

Do the parties have to consider the potential impact of re-negotiation of existing arrangements and whether that is likely in their partnership arrangements? Re-negotiation of existent information sharing arrangements is only required in the same degree that it would be with SASPI or Gold Standard. If existent arrangements are no longer applicable and need to be […]

IS Toolkit and the Third Sector

Does this include considerations and inclusion of the third sector and blue light services to avoid further work with Councils in terms of negotiation of separate arrangements for these services? One of the key cornerstones of the IS Toolkit is efficiency. The Toolkit is developed for adoption when information happens between a Scottish public sector organisation and […]

IS Toolkit road testing

The Toolkit is an evolution from the experience gathered using SASPI and Gold Standard;. The review has collected experiences and advice from experts across Local Authorities, Central Government, Health Care and Police; a road tested set of expert advice. Some resources have been in used for a number of years; any reviews are always produced by experts from […]