RSPH Certification First to Award Information Standard Certificates

3 December 2009

The RSPH Certification department is very proud to announce that it is the first certification body to award certificates for the Information Standard, a new standard developed by the Department of Health for health and social care information.

Certificates have been awarded to the following organisations:

Terence Higgins Trust
Thyroid UK
Arthritis Care
Macmillan Cancer Support
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Oxfordshire County Council Social and Community Services
Sue Ryder Care
Pennine Acute NHS Trust

All eight organisations worked with RSPH Certification during the Information Standard pilot scheme. RSPH Certification would like to congratulate all those involved on their hard work, dedication and success in achieving certification to the new standard.

The Information Standard is a quality mark for health and social care information, which provides an easy way to identify quality and trustworthy information. If your organisation produces health and/or social care information you should be considering certification to this new standard.

At the Information Standard launch in November, RSPH Certification were delighted to receive positive feedback from the organisations we have worked with. We are looking forward to working with many more organisations now that the scheme has been launched and pride ourselves on our expert and friendly approach.

Dominic Edwardes, Head of Marketing for the Terrence Higgins Trust, said;

“Working with Alan and Kathy from RSPH Certification during The Information Standard pilot project was a really positive experience. At the start of the scheme, before any of the audits had begun, it was easy to feel apprehensive about the forthcoming processes and requirements. However, any fears we had soon disappeared, as Alan and Kathy were always on hand to provide friendly advice, encouragement and support. As an experienced auditing body and a public health charity RSPH are excellently placed to guide their clients through the auditing process and we would recommend them to anyone starting the scheme.”
 
 
 
For more information on how the RSPH can work with you and your business towards Information Standard certification, or to arrange an informal visit from one of our team, please contact Alan Eldridge at aeldridge@rsph.org.uk or on 020 3177 1660.

 


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Note to editors

The Royal Society for Public Health is an independent, multi-disciplinary organisation, dedicated to the promotion and protection of collective human health and well-being. Through advocacy, mediation, empowerment, knowledge and practice we advise on policy development, provide education and training services, encourage scientific research, disseminate information and certify products, training centres and processes.

Over 100,000 students take our qualifications each year in food hygiene, salon hygiene, pest control, health & safety, nutrition, the built environment, meat inspection, health and emergency planning. We provide qualifications which are directly relevant to the workplace and we help people to progress through their chosen career by offering qualifications at different levels. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is also an awarding body recognised by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). We have a network of over 1500 training centres throughout the UK. We provide a wide range of course material including syllabuses and sample exam papers.

The RSPH is an independent charity formed in October 2008 with the merger of the Royal Society of Health (RSH) and the Royal Institute of Public Health (RIPH). The RSPH has a Royal Charter and Her Majesty The Queen is our Patron.

 

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