Keeping information safe: Data protection and cyber security in social care

Care providers need to store and share information securely, on paper and digitally. It's essential to delivering person-centred care, based on good information. And it’s a legal and regulatory requirement.

Digital Care Hub are working with the Care Provider Alliance and their Better Security, Better Care team to understand the data protection and cyber security challenges you face. They will work with them to deliver free support on the key issues. To help them with this, please complete this short survey

You may be aware but a reminder of Digital Care Hub's new resources below:

• To tie in with cyber awareness month we have released new advice on how to deal with a cyber attack.

• Digital Care Hub welcomes the recommendations in the BCS Chartered Institute for IT’s landscape review of digitisation in social care.

• Transforming adult social care through digitalisation - a landscape review

• New case study on why Roses Homecare went digital

• Finally, new free training and support that new care services need to do around Data Security and Protection Toolkit.