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Information governance guide for clinical audit
This hands-on guide has been developed to give clear and constructive advice, alongside examples and tips on how to undertake an information governance compliant clinical audit.
The guide outlines:
- laws affecting how you can use clinical audit data
- types of data and how it can be used in clinical audit
- security of data, storage and retention of data
- secondary use of audit data.
The guide outlines your data handling responsibilities throughout the course of a clinical audit project and what you should do afterwards. It also provides a useful Information Governance checklist to ensure you consider the full information governance responsibilities of your project.
- Download Guide (revised with minor changes, November 2011)
A quick guide to undertaking an information governance compliant audit project
The quick guide is a condensed version of the full information governance guide for clinical audit and should be used as an aide memoir to remind you of the key messages from it. You should always refer the main guide if further information is required.
Information governance for clinical audit patient information leaflet
The patient information leaflet aims to raise patients' awareness of the invaluable work done by clinical audit teams in improving healthcare services whilst reassuring them that their information will be handled appropriately and within the law.
The leaflet is designed to meet the needs of the Data Protection Act 1998 which requires there should be ‘no surprises' for data subjects on how their information is used and who may have access to it.
This leaflet should be adapted to suit your own organisational and audit needs.
Please note that, in order to protect the environment, HQIP resources have been designed to be printed in duplex, ie double-sided. If you choose to print single-sided, blank pages will appear within the document. Furthermore, HQIP tools and templates are designed using Microsoft Office packages and may lose formatting should they be opened in other formats.
