Information governance guidance

Information sharing in Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs)

A MDT is a group of health and care staff from different organisations and professions that together make decisions regarding the treatment of individual patients and service users. There are some IG considerations when working as part of an MDT.

Universal information governance templates and FAQs

NHS England has produced a suite of universal IG templates to support health organisations’ lawful collection, processing and sharing of information.

Child Protection Information Sharing (CP-IS) system template DPIA

This data protection impact assessment (DPIA) template is for professionals in health and care organisations who are responsible for managing their organisation’s access to and use of the Child Protection Information Sharing (CP-IS) system.

Personal data breaches and related incidents

This guidance provides advice to patients and service users on what a personal data breach is and to help health and care organisations deal with personal data breaches.

O365 migration DPIA templates

These data protection impact assessment (DPIA) templates are for project leads and IG professionals in health and care organisations who are involved in managing and supporting Microsoft Office 365 (O365) data transfers.

Cyber incident IG checklist and template notification letter

NHS England has produced two templates for information governance (IG) professionals in health and care organisations to use when managing and supporting a cyber incident.

Subject Access Request (SAR) form

This form can be used by patients and service users to make a SAR to a health or care organisation.

Open Safely DPIA templates

Data protection impact assessment (DPIA) templates for GP practices to use as controllers of the GP datasets used by the OpenSAFELY services.

Virtual wards

Virtual wards support people, who would otherwise be in hospital, to receive the care and treatment they need in their own home or usual place of residence. Virtual wards are suitable for a range of conditions that can be safely and effectively monitored at home including respiratory conditions, heart failure and COVID-19.