Good care records and strong confidentiality for care services – Regulation 17, digital social care records, the Caldicott Principles and the Data Security and Protection Toolkit.
Care providers
Record Keeping and Confidentiality Policy
About this document
A policy for creating, using, sharing, storing and disposing of care records and other confidential information in a care service. It covers the standards for good care notes, digital social care records, information sharing for direct care, the eight Caldicott Principles, subject access requests, data breaches, retention and the annual DSPT.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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