Information Governance
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support (IGCS)
All Trust employees who record, store and/or process personal data in any form, must ensure that they comply with the Data Protection Act, 1998 (DPA). Any Personal Identifiable Data held in manual or electronic records in a retrievable form is classed as a database and all databases must be registered under the Data Protection Act (DPA). This process is known as notification, and a Data Notification and Data Mapping Form must be completed and submitted to the Department of IGCS for all such databases.
Policies
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Data Protection Policy - For information on how to store personal data, either in paper or electronic form, please refer to Section 12 of the Data Protection Policy.
Transferring Personal Identifiable Data - To provide guidance and procedures to ensure the security and confidentiality of all personal identifiable data and other sensitive or confidential information.
It should also be noted that the Information Governance Department has now taken on the responsibilities of the Caldicott Guardian Function and the Senior Information Risk Owner support role and has been renamed The Department for IGCS.
Please copy your R&D Coordinator into all correspondence with Information Governance and remember to always include your STH reference number.
Contacts
To ensure prompt processing of your application please address all correspondence to the following email: infogov@sth.nhs.uk
The Department for IGCS2 Claremont Place |
Deputy contactJoanne SturdyInformation Governance Administrator 2 Claremont Place Sheffield S10 2TB Tel: (0114) 2265151 Fax: (0114) 2265152 joanne.sturdy@sth.nhs.uk |
Deputy contactAmy Cooper
Information Governance Officer 2 Claremont Place Sheffield S10 2TB Tel: (0114) 2265161 Fax: (0114) 2265152 |
Deputy contactPeter Wilson |
