Record keeping at Greyfriers nursing home. Prepare materials to provide a comprehensive account of the main content of each of the following piece of legislation that affect Greyfriers nursing home.

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Record keeping at Greyfriers nursing home.

  1. Prepare materials to provide a comprehensive account of the main content of each of the following piece of legislation that affect Greyfriers nursing home. You must include:
  • Data Protection Act
  • Care Standard Act
  • Access to Personal Files Act

 What is Data Protection Act?

Data Protection Act applies to all health, social care and early years settings. It is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which explains UK law on the handling of data on perceptible living people. This legislation covers how to deal with private information although the Act itself does not discuss secrecy. This kind of information can only be accessed by care workers who have legal right to look at it and those individuals whose information is being held. Personal data must be kept accurate, up to date and shall not be kept for longer than is necessary as it should only be used for that particular purpose. Data Protection Act is applied to business information, credit card details, health records and social service records. Information should be kept private as it’s only for professional care workers use, data controllers should make sure they password protect it if its saved on documents or if its written records they should keep them in filling cabinets that they can lock them so no one can access to it if they are not suppose to. Care workers who have service users records should make sure they keep the information safe as possible.

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Data Protection Act has eight principals:

  • Should be processed fairly and lawfully.
  • Obtained for particular and lawful purposes-
  • Enough, relevant and not excessive.
  • Accurate and up to date.
  • Not kept any longer than necessary.
  • Processed in agreement with the data subject’s rights.
  • Securely kept.
  • Not transferred to any other country without enough protection.

Data protection will affect Greyfriers nursing home because there will be service users who will want to keep their personal information or health records private. They will have different problems and needs. If there is no data protection act applied to a nursing home, ...

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