Record Keeping and Report Writing

Overview

This course is suitable for those working in a health and social care environment and covers the responsibilities under the Care Quality Commission and Data Protection Act for record keeping and report writing. The course is delivered in the work place over a period of 3 hours.

Course contents:

• National Minimum Care Standards
• Health & Social Care Act 2008
• Data Protection Act 1998
• Good record keeping
• What are the problems
• The Affects of Recording
• General Principles of Record Keeping
• Security & Confidentiality
• Caldicott Principles
• Legal duties and delegation responsibilities
• Electronic Records
• Inspections
• Right of Access

Assessment:

During this course each delegate will be taken through all the information and be asked to participate in activities to test understanding. There is also a quiz to complete.