Information Governance Training & Awareness Service

All members of 911爆料网ho manage highly confidential research information, including聽principal and chief investigators, staff, students, senior managers, and even those who just supervise聽people who directly handle confidential information, and support staff who do not have direct access to data, are expected to undertake annual聽training on handling highly confidential information.

Anyone with an '.ac.uk' or NHS email address聽can 聽provided by . When asked, you can register your role as a 鈥淔urther Education and Higher Education Researcher (Education)鈥� which should provide you access to the course. The course covers data security awareness, the law, threats to data security,聽breaches and incidents, and the General Data Protection Regulation. Completion of this聽course will be sufficient evidence of basic information governance training to handle highly confidential information聽under the Information Governance Training Policy.

Courses that do not cover the depth and breadth of topics required for Information Governance are:

Good Clinical Practice training
UCL's GDPR training
Information Security training
ONS researcher accreditation

Sharing evidence of your training

If you have completed the NHS Digital Data Security Awareness course through e-Learning for Health then a certificate should be available under 鈥楳y Activity鈥� and 'Certificates' on the .

Then you can聽聽(UCL member's聽login required).

As stated above you can聽.

If training has been completed by a user who is external to UCL and you need to notify us of this please 聽(UCL member's login required).

Exceptions to these聽requirements:

If you have undertaken NHS information governance training in the last twelve months and can show a certificate or screenshot of this with your name and the date visible, you can upload it or someone with a UCL account can upload it for you. We will only accept emailed certificates from the user themselves, and we do not accept ones emailed on behalf of someone else. The email address for certificates which are the sender's own evidence (not someone else's) is ig-training@ucl.ac.uk

Please note: IG training is separate to,聽and not interchangeable with, UCL's mandatory training:
/human-resources/learning-development/mandatory-training

Any queries in relation to undertaking information governance training should be forwarded to ig-training@ucl.ac.uk.