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West Midlands Governance Mini Con – Collaborating to Improve Health and Social Care Delivery

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Date & time

  1. 2 November 2022 09:30 - 14:00

Overview

This is the first West Midlands Governance Mini Conference where we intend to bring together governance leads from across the public sector and region to collaborate, network and share best practice.

We invite all Caldicott’s, SIRO’s, DPO’s and those involved with data protection and information governance to join us for an insightful and informative event.

Hosted by the Black Country ICB and supported by Socitm west midlands, we are seeking to address DSPT compliance, technological advancements, Health and Social Care Integration and Data Protection by Design and by Default and you are invited to join us on this journey.

Agenda

  1. 09:30 Registration

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  2. 10:00 Welcome and Introductions

    Paul Withers, Data Protection Manager, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | Katie Sparrow, Data Protection Officer, Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust

  3. 10:05 Opening Statement

    Stephen Gunther, Director of Public, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council 

  4. 10:15 Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) - What’s Changed?

    Barry Moult, Director at BJM IG Privacy Ltd

    A brief look at the requirements within the DSPT and changes for 2022/23, with a view to examine if is this sufficient to show compliance with Data Protection Legislation (UK-GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018)

  5. 10:35 Warning Advice Reporting Point (WARP) session

    Tony Proctor, Chair West Midlands WARP

    Cyber Security and wider UK Government covered by West Midlands WARP

  6. 10:50 Scalable data solution for DSAR processing & Enterprise content/records management SaaS

    Smartbox.ai | EncompaaS

    Opportunities to take a look at technological advancements and gather information about how technology can be used support services whilst also supporting Information Governance and Data Protection Compliance.

  7. 11:20 Faster Data Flows

    Gemma Donnahey, NHS England

    In response to the need to provide timely, highly quality data that can be accessed throughout the whole patient pathway, whilst minimising the impact on providers, the aim of the Faster Data Flows Programme is to implement an automated daily collection of patient data and to provide modern data architecture to the NHS. In order to implement Faster Data Flows, the Programme Team has worked through an extensive information governance process and will be sharing their learning from the programme and providing an update on the upcoming national roll out of the Faster Data Flows pilot.

  8. 12:00 Lunch and networking

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  9. 13:00 Ethical and Secure Data

    Paul Withers, Data Protection Manager, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

    Ethical data processing – understanding the way in which our moral compass supports good data protection compliance and the secure processing of data.

  10. 13:25 Panel Discussion: Privacy By Design and Default

    Chair: Dave Sanderson, Director, Socitm | Gemma Donnahey, NHS England | Barry Moult, Director at BJM IG Privacy Ltd | Lewis Borne, Data Protection Officer, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Tony Proctor, Chair of West Midlands WARP

    Following the introduction of UK-GDPR there is a mandatory need to consider data protection by design; this is ultimately an approach that ensures you consider privacy and data protection issues at the beginning or the ‘design phase’ of any system, service, product or process and then throughout the lifecycle.

    This panel session provides you the opportunity for open questions around all aspects of Privacy By Design and Default with experts from Health and Social Care and beyond.

  11. 14:00 Closing Remarks

    Paul Withers, Data Protection Manager, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | Katie Sparrow, Data Protection Officer, Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust

Speakers

  • Photo of Paul Withers Paul Withers Data Protection Manager, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Dave Sanderson Dave Sanderson Director of Member Services, Socitm
  • Barry Moult Barry Moult Director, BJM IG Privacy Ltd
  • Stephen Gunther Stephen Gunther Director of Public, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Katie Sparrow Katie Sparrow Data Protection Officer, Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust
  • Gemma Dodds Gemma Dodds Consultancy Programme Lead – Yorkshire and Humber, NHS England
  • Tony Proctor Tony Proctor Chair West Midlands WARP
  • Lewis Bourne Lewis Bourne Data Protection and Information Governance Manager, Dudley MBC

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