Practice 1.3 Share information with other bodies

Examples of notable practice:

Formalising information sharing arrangements

The Healthcare Commission has developed a generic information sharing protocol. The protocol is designed to underpin the development of bilateral information sharing agreements.

Sharing information

The Audit Commission will share the outcomes of two aspects of its local audit work - the Auditor Local Evaluation (ALE) and the use of resources score, with the Healthcare Commission for use in the new Annual Healthcheck.  The AC and the HC are strengthening the relationships on the ground to ensure that there is a shared intelligence around the assessment process so that all audit and inspection work is based on a common understanding of the greatest risk and improvement issues.

Annual health check

The cross-checking process that forms part of the Healthcare Commission’s new Annual Healthcheck uses a range of information sources.
www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/AnnualHealthCheck (opens new window)

National Conference 2006

The third National Conference relating to the quality assurance of healthcare education was held in Birmingham on 27 June 2006. The following article, taken from the eleventh edition of QA News for healthcare education, provides highlights of the conference and examples of drivers to identify joint working opportunities
QA News \'National Conference 2006\' (pdf 104kb)