Considerations when developing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy

The content of your Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy is dependant upon a number of factors:

• The need to ensure compliance with data security and handling requirements to avoid exposure to fines up to £500k for breaches of Data Protection legislation arising from data loss incidents.
• The desire to provide an innovative and efficient working practice that improves the delivery of services. Continue reading....

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Benchmarking Report on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

One of our Audit England partners, Emias, has recently produced a report following a national benchmarking survey they undertook with the support of the DH and NHS Internal Audit consortia (including SCA) regarding the use of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) in hospitals. The study came about because actual numbers of DOLS requests appear to be significantly below the levels the Government is expecting, yet there is no definitive information about how many requests each Trust/Hospital Board “should” be making each year. Continue reading....

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What do you really know about where your organisations’ money comes and goes?

Delivering year-on-year cost savings, through effective delivery of recurrent Cost Improvement Plans is essential in the current climate.  Cost-cutting in itself is not enough however – there is also a need to control exists over income from Payment By Results and other funding flows.  This is not easy in an environment where the guidance, systems and indeed, healthcare organisations themselves, are constantly changing or merging. Continue reading....