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Resource creator: Digitising Social Care
The following guidance details how to get secure email that meet the secure email standard (DCB1596).
Any email containing health and care information sent to and from health and social care organisations must meet these standards.
Date published: November 2023
Resource creator: Care Quality Commission (CQC)
This report looks what people with a learning disability and autistic people experience when they need physical health care and treatment in hospital.
Date published: November 2022
Resource creator: NHS Digital
The Data Security and Protection Toolkit is an online self-assessment tool that all organisations must use if they have access to NHS patient data and systems.
Date published: February 2022
Resource creator: Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB)
Endorsed by professional bodies, national charities, PRSB Standards are closely aligned with NICE guidelines and help health and social care providers to align with best practice.
The Core Information Standard defines a set of information that can potentially be shared between systems in different sites and settings, among professionals and people using services.
Date published: November 2020
Resource creator: Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB)
Endorsed by professional bodies, national charities, PRSB Standards are closely aligned with NICE guidelines and help health and social care providers to align with best practice.
Whilst the standard is for hospitals, the information will be useful to community based adult social care providers to understand what hospitals must determine when it is safe to discharge a person and implement a discharge plan.
It helps adult social care providers to better understand the decision-making process expected of hospital staff to determine whether the person needs to be referred for an assessment to establish ongoing care and support in the community after discharge.
Date published: November 2020
Resource creator: Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB)
Endorsed by professional bodies, national charities, PRSB Standards are closely aligned with NICE guidelines and help health and social care providers to align with best practice.
The urgent transfer from care home to hospital standard is the information required for the care and support of a person when they are admitted to hospital from a care home in an emergency.
Date published: November 2020
Resource creator: Skills for Care
This resource details what should be included in a service users Hospital bag, so if they need to go to hospital in an emergency they have everything ready to go with them in the ambulance.
Date published: December 2019
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This is the NICE quality standard on transitions for children, young people and adults between mental health hospitals and their own homes, care homes or other community settings. It includes statements and measures on:
- communication and joint working across adults' and children's services
- access to independent advocacy services.
The statements are specific and concise and focus on priorities for quality improvement. Please see statement 2.
Date published: September 2017
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This is a short and visually appealing guide for practitioners supporting young people, containing key information from the relevant NICE guidance.
Date published: June 2017
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This NICE Quality Standard advocates that adults with social care needs who are admitted to hospital should have existing care plans shared with the admitting team.
Date published: December 2016
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This NICE Quality Standard advocates that adults with social care needs who are admitted to hospital should have existing care plans shared with the admitting team.
Date published: December 2016
Resource creator: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Date published: February 2016
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