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<p>In 2016, the Information Governance Alliance published the NHS Records Management
Code of Practice which sets out what people working with, or in, National Health Service
organisations in England need to do to manage records correctly.</p><p> </p><p>The
Code of Practice is based on current legal requirements and professional best practice.
It includes advice that each NHS organisation should have an overall policy statement
on how it manages all its records, including electronic records.</p><p> </p><p>It
is the responsibility of each NHS organisation to ensure that staff are assigned access
to patient records based on their role in the organisation and that, where appropriate,
they should document their actions and decisions in patients’ records.</p>
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