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Information governance
Information governance (IG) helps everyone in health and care organisations to use information responsibly.
These pages are the home for national IG guidance for health and care, developed with input from local and national stakeholders. Explore our guidance to help you use information appropriately to support care, research, planning and more.
Our IG pages provide clear and consistent IG advice and guidance to patients and service users, health and care staff and IG professionals.
NHS England convenes a working group to check and challenge the guidance. The working group includes representation from:
Guidance
These pages provide clear and consistent IG advice and guidance to patients and service users, health and care staff and IG professionals. NHS England convenes a working group to check and challenge the guidance.
Latest updates
Explore our latest IG guidance.
Updated guidance on subject access requests incorporating new considerations introduced by the Data Use and Access Act (DUAA) 2025.
This guidance covers the IG considerations for health and care organisations who are adopting an ambient scribe for individual care purposes.
Guidance to help IG professionals identify whether health and care organisations are acting as a controller, joint controller or processor in relation to processing of personal data.
This guidance sets out the IG implications of using Microsoft 365 Copilot in health and care settings.
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Last edited: 11 May 2026 2:05 pm