December 2025 update

General

Blog – Reflective practice – N3i Information Governance – This provides guidance for patients to help them understand how and why their information may be used in this way, and an additional paragraph to add to the privacy notice of those practices who support reflective practice.

Blog – View or update registers – N3i Information Governance – This provides an NHSE link to view or update Caldicott Guardian, SIRO and IAO registers.

Reminders

OpenSAFELY – Practices have been receiving reminder letters from NHSE about this. Please see our blog about practice actions for this legal requirement: OpenSAFELY – practice action – N3i Information Governance.

We have received several queries about Lasting Powers of Attorneys recently. Please see the following blogs that we have written about this:

LPA for Property and Affairs – N3i Information Governance – There is information here about how an LPA for Property and Affairs, as well as an LPA for Health and Welfare can be appropriately used within the NHS.

LPA digital service – This links to the new service where organisations can check the validity and of an LPA, and who are named as attorneys.