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