HIQA Data Protection and Confidentiality Policy

Overview

Draft or update a data protection and confidentiality policy aligned with HIQA, GDPR, and Irish law.

Getting Started

Add your source materials to the project workspace, then activate the HIQA Data Protection and Confidentiality Policy skill. The agent will guide you through the process step by step.

Example conversation

You: We need a data protection and confidentiality policy for our social care service—HIQA, GDPR, and Irish law.

Agent: I’ll use the HIQA information management standards reference. I’ll draft a policy covering: GDPR principles; legal basis (including Art. 9 for health data and Irish law); confidentiality and need-to-know; access control and security; data subject rights and how to respond; sharing and disclosure; breaches; DPO role; and training. I’ll align with your information governance and record-keeping procedures.

Output excerpt

Data protection and confidentiality policy excerpt

Confidentiality — Personal and health information is confidential. Staff access information on a need-to-know basis for care or lawful purpose. Disclosure to third parties is only with consent, legal basis, or legal obligation (e.g. safeguarding). Unauthorised disclosure is a disciplinary matter.

Data subject rights — Individuals have rights (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, object, complain to DPC). Requests are passed to [DPO / role] and responded to within one month. How to exercise rights is published in our privacy notice.

Extension and validation

This skill does not include custom validation tools. Elaboration is guided by the skill workflow and reference materials.