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Information Governance

Date Protection laws protect the data given to organisations. The Trust complies with all relevant legislation and relevant policies can be found below.

Data Protection Impact Assessments

The Trust follows a privacy by design approach to ensure you information and privacy is a top priority in any new electronic system. We carry out a Data Privacy Impact Assessment, which is also known as a DPIA to screen new systems (or significant changes to existing systems) to check for any risks to confidential data. If a DPIA highlights any risk, these are appropriately managed and action is taken to remove or significantly reduce it to an acceptable level.

View a Summary of Current DPIAs and their Status

To make sure our patients’ information is secure the trust follows a privacy by design approach to make sure your information and privacy is a top priority for any new system. We use a process known as a Data Privacy Impact Assessment also called a DPIA for screening new systems (or significant changes to existing systems) to highlight any risks to confidential data. Where a DPIA highlights risks these are appropriately managed and action taken to ensure the risk is removed or significantly reduced to an acceptable level.

The DPIA is a tool recommended by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) to help us make sure your data is used properly, legally and securely. You can find out more about the ICO website here.