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Statutory & Mandatory Training: Information Governance Awareness

What rights does the GDPR give individuals?

Course Overview

Format

Intermediate
1-2 Study Hours
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

1-2 CPD Hours
CPD Certified

Course description

Information governance is extremely important, and staff working in a healthcare setting have access to private and sensitive information, and they will need to understand how to keep it safe and secure.

Staff working in a healthcare environment need to ensure that they understand information governance and how it relates to their role.

This course is designed to provide effective learning for staff to ensure they understand the rules of GDPR and the Caldicott Principles. It also offers practical advice on how to ensure patient records are kept safe and secure. This includes paper records and information held on a computer system.

There are challenges throughout the course to test your knowledge on what you have learnt so far.

Training outcomes

Understand the principles of information governance and how they apply in everyday working environments.
Understand the importance of data security in health and care organisations.
Be familiar with the fundamentals of data protection, confidentiality and the Caldicott Principles, in line with the GDPR.
Know how you can apply and maintain information security guidelines within the context of your role, avoiding threats - including cyber threats - to data security and identifying near misses and incidents.
Be able to maintain good records in line with information governance principles, and apply best practice in your workplace.
Understand the responsibilities of healthcare organisations and individuals under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Accreditation

The course is accredited by CPD. The certificates, awarded upon successful completion, can be used to log your hours against.

Duration

The course usually take between 1-2 hours to complete, depending on the speed of learning. Learners do not have to complete all the training in one session as progress is recorded throughout and the training can be paused and resumed in our learning management system at any time.

Target audience

This course bundle is aimed at anyone working in a healthcare role such as care assistants, nurses, doctors, hospital administrators and receptionists, etc.

Entry requirements

There are no entry requirements for this course.

Test and certificate

Each end of course test consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test six times at no extra cost.

If learners do not achieve the 75% pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.

You will learn

Understand the principles of information governance and how they apply in everyday working environments

Understand the importance of data security in health and care organisations

Be familiar with the fundamentals of data protection, confidentiality and the Caldicott Principles, in line with the GDPR

Understand the responsibilities of healthcare organisations and individuals under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Anyone working in a healthcare role

Care Assistants

Nurses

Doctors

Hospital Administrators

Receptionists

How the online courses work

Find a course

To begin searching for your online training you can click on the course category section on our website and browse through all of our training categories.
Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.
Buy the course

When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.
Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.
Take the course

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.
If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.