. Purpose & Principles
The Information Governance Management System (IGMS) is a set of policies brought together to set minimum standards and policy direction in relation to security, confidentiality, integrity and availability of information BrisDoc is responsible for:
- Monitoring, maintaining and improving compliance with appropriate legal and regulatory requirements.
- Developing, maintaining and monitoring the integrity of information to ensure that it is of sufficient quality for use within the purposes it was collected.
- Developing appropriate resilience and recovery arrangements for systems, based on assessed risks to information and its perceived value, to ensure that availability of information is not compromised.
- Ensure staff are equipped to handle information respectfully and safely, according to the Caldicott Principles
- Ensuring the organisation proactively prevents data security breaches and responds appropriately to incidents or near misses.
- Ensuring technology is secure and up-to-date.
- Encouraging clinicians and other members of care teams to share information to enable joined-up care, better diagnosis and treatment where possible
- Ensuring there are no surprises to the citizen about how their health and care data is being used and that they are given a choice about this.
Staff are responsible for:
- Maintaining physical security of the building whilst on duty.
- Maintaining security of identifiable information at all times.
- Ensuring they understand Caldicott and Data Protection principles.
- Completing training by the required dates
- Being aware of and behaving in accordance with policy.
- Reporting incidents and near misses to their line managers or service Caldicott Leads via BrisDocs incident Portal.