April 2026 update

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AI

Ambient scribe DPIA template – NHSE have published this template for practices to use when considering the use of ambient voice technology products.

NHSE AI guidance – This AI guidance is for patients, healthcare workers and IG professionals.

General

Universal information governance templates – These NHSE templates have been updated, so for those of you who use a local copy of the template, you might want to update it.

Sharing information with LeDeR  – This blog has a couple of information links for those of you who are unfamiliar with the Learning from Lives and Deaths – People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People (LeDeR) programme.

Reminders

Secure emailing to non-NHS addresses – Please ensure all staff members are aware of the requirement for the use of Egress when emailing patient data (eg subject access requests) to non-accredited email domains (eg Hotmail, Gmail).