NHS Information Standards are a powerful tool for all healthcare organisations as they support innovation, improve services and increase productivity. Effective standardisation supports the enhancement of services, enabling an organisation to effectively shape the delivery of safe, interoperable and cost effective health / social care services.
The Department of Health’s Information Governance Policy team are working on a portfolio of information standards initiated by new Government directives; DH policy; identified needs demonstrated via IG Toolkit outcomes; and a desire to improve existing operational processes. The aim is to improve and promote understanding of delivering health and social care within adequate Information Governance arrangements and achieving benefits to the service users.
The Team’s key objectives are:
- Identify and prioritise need for Information Governance Policy lead standards
- Develop Information Governance Policy related Information Standards
- Progress standards through the NHS and Social Care Information Standards Board processes
- Monitor outcomes and obtain feedback on benefits
- Provide an Information Governance input to standards being developed by others.
The outcome of these standards is likely to impact the requirements included in Version 10 (12/13) of the Information Governance Toolkit.
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