Version 8 of the Information Governance Toolkit – What It’s All About!

The Department of Health body, ‘Connecting for Health’ has produced a toolkit which allows NHS organisations, dentists, opticians, private healthcare providers and other relevant suppliers to healthcare to assess themselves against a series of policies and standards relating to Information Governance. The toolkit is available online, and healthcare bodies upload their scores and evidence against each of the standards via the online tool.
The Information Governance toolkit is not a new invention by the Department of Health – it has been around for several years. The difference with version 8 of the toolkit when compared to previous version however, is …