While much has been written and said about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the compliance deadline for which is 25 May this year, GP practice managers need to be aware of another set of data security requirements – which need to be met by April.

This week’s announcement that the government will sign the European privacy rules set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into British Law and update the existing Data Protection Act made headline news – and rightly so given it impacts on pretty much every organisation in the UK – including GP practices. The announcement…

In recent days GP practices up and down and the country have received reminders regarding the need to supply information for the Workforce Minimum Data Set. The regulations, which require practices to record any members of staff, including locums, who have worked at a practice since the last extraction, even if it’s just for 1…

A large number of Practice Index members have voiced their concerns over the movement of medical records, calling it ‘an Information Governance nightmare’. Records are seemingly going into unlabelled grey bags with no receipts and no signatures.  Many practices are not handing over patient records to delivery drivers, with one practice manager writing, “it’s an absolute shambles…

GP patient records are no longer kept on practice-based servers and whilst the original records folders are still held locally they are rarely referred to and their future is in doubt.  But even though records by law have to be kept for a specific time, the use of computer records means paper copies, like clinical…