New versions of the Scottish IS Toolkit and IG Pack are now available in the “Resources” area. These versions have been reviewed in line with GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and will be reviewed again in light of Brexit as necessary.
New version of Scottish Information Sharing Toolkit now published
A new version of the Scottish IS Toolkit is now availble in the “Resources” ares. This version has been reviewed in line with GDPR and the new Data Protection Act 2018.
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 […]
SG response to Caldicott review (Caldicott 3) 2016
Response from the Scottish Government to Dame Fiona Caldicott with regards to the recent Caldicott review (Caldicott 3) is now available in the Publication section.
Director Letter on Information Governance and Security Measures 2015 / 2017
Download Summary Board Chief Executive Officers, Caldicott Guardians, Information Governance (IG) Leads, ICT professionals and others will by now have had the opportunity to comment and contribute to a whole package of measures being launched to improve Information Governance and Information Security.
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 […]