Competency information
Details
Apply information governance principles and best practice in the workplace, including confidentiality.
Considerations
- The legislation, regulatory guidance and NHS protocols regarding the security, confidentiality and appropriate sharing of patient identifiable information.
- Role of the Caldicott Guardian.
- The different arrangements and the associated responsibilities of clinical staff for security of all types of clinical information, especially electronically held, and for using such data for ‘secondary’ purposes.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Examine a work based related dataflow and review how data are collected, analysed and used to support care, research and healthcare management within the organisation, including a healthcare science service. |
| # 2 | Outcome Examine how large NHS data sets are created and used to support research and critical evaluation of practice, make funding decisions and contribute to the formulation and delivery of plans and strategies for meeting health and social care. |
| # 3 | Outcome Analyse the strengths and weaknesses, from a data perspective, of activity-based funding mechanisms. |
| # 4 | Outcome Assess the strengths and weaknesses of SNOMED CT, ICD 10 and OPCS5, and present the analysis and the findings in a written report. |
| # 5 | Outcome Review the challenges involved in coding clinical encounters; assess what kind of granularity of coding is practical and present at a team or departmental meeting. |
| # 6 | Outcome Represent a healthcare problem as a decision tree, including, where possible, the views of patients, and use the decision tree to inform the solution to the healthcare or healthcare science problem. |