Information governance is a framework or umbrella term. It informs the NHS and its partner organisations of the processes and procedures that it must have to ensure:
- your confidentiality is respected
- your records are held in secure conditions
- information about you is recorded clearly and accurately, so that it can be easily read and relied upon by others providing you with care.
The way that a Trust's ability is controlled/audited/reported is via the IG Toolkit - now on its 8th iteration.....The toolkit offers up a series of capabilities across the areas of confidentiality, integrity and availability of information under its control and requests each Trust to 'grade' itself. To perform this accurately and consistently it is often wise to perform an Information Governance Capability Assessment.
Ask yourself this question: Are you using your Information Governance Capability Assessment to identify efficiency gains, savings and establish a baseline for re-focusing resources towards key service quality improvement activities?
The Thinking People’s unique Information Governance “Return on Investment” Assessment services help you to increase the range of business benefits delivered by your investment in the NHS Information Governance Toolkit attainment levels.
We can deliver greater benefits over that of traditional information governance service providers, with services and capability encompassing:
- Identification of immediate operational efficiency gains and cost savings with opportunities for the release of valuable technical and information resources, to focus on delivery of further cost effective improvements in service quality and operational capabilities.
- Qualification of benefits on approaches and solutions supporting the cost effective development of information governance compliance levels (2, through to 3).
- Knowledge transfer on methods for exploiting information governance deliverables in supporting the aims of the “Information Revolution”, with a focus on development and delivery of an increased return on investment value, from your information assets.
- Application of a step change (agile) approach to ensure realisation of benefits and return on investment at every stage.
- Extensive NHS knowledge and pedigree.
Information Governance and Data Security - remains a primary business driver for investment, regardless of the economic conditions: failures in addressing the requirements for compliance and data protection undermine patient confidence and positive perception of service quality, damaging reputations and inevitably leading to the incurrence of extra-ordinary, unplanned costs.
Positively, information governance and data security can be considered from the perspective of being a driver to changing your organisation's culture, to empowering your staff to help you implement more efficient, cost effective ways of working, and achieve higher quality outcomes, through greater exploitation of what today’s information technology has to offer.
The Thinking People's services ensure this business need is addressed in conjunction with change to staff culture, providing the mechanism to achieve significant cost savings, whilst at the same time creating a secure environment and culture that strives to increase the return on information asset investment, though a process of continuous, sustainable improvement.
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