NHS Trusts failing to implement Patient Safety Alerts?
Patients’ health and lives unnecessarily put at risk, repeated failures by NHS Trusts to implement Patient Safety Alerts: the highly critical report by charity AVMA points to flaws in communicating and auditing healthcare procedures. Hitec’s Information Sheet shows how Conform’s proven capabilities could transform effectiveness and awareness.
Security AND efficiencies in the Public Sector - why ensuring policy awareness is essential
An intense drive on efficiencies. Relentless pressure to maintain security. Public sector organisations have never had it so tough. In this white paper we explore how taking back control of communicating key policies and procedures helps councils, government departments and NHS bodies achieve both goals.
Demonstrating Rigorous Governance in the Face of Aggressively Rampant Regulators
“Supervision will be inherently more confrontational and intense”. With the FSA openly setting out its plans for radically more aggressive supervision and monitoring, we investigate key strategies for withstanding intense scrutiny and demonstrating rigorous governance.
Treading the policy tightrope: The five critical stages of policy management
The challenges of regulatory compliance are apparently unending. A tidal wave of regulatory and security demands has relentlessly driven up the cost of compliance. How can you make policies effective, without being overwhelmed by the administrative costs?
Addressing the "People problem" - closing the gap in the compliance and security loop
A fundamental weakness of compliance and security strategies comes not from technological threats. It’s in the risks related to employees, behaviour and awareness of key guidelines. In this paper we explore what’s involved in countering the long established "People Problem" and closing the gap in the security loop.
Ineffective and poorly communicated - why most Acceptance Use Policies fail
In this paper, we explore why the majority of AUPs are ineffective, often not understood, poorly managed, and represent more of a token gesture than a sustainable approach to risk management.
Upstream efficiencies or downstream firefighting? For the HR department, managing cases such as unfair dismissal and disciplinary hearings can be a matter of searching for evidence that employees were treated fairly and had agreed to the company’s guidelines and policies. In this paper we investigate how effective upfront communication and auditing of procedures avoids the perils of covering up poor processes.
US Financial Regulatory Reform: The Fundamentals
Hiteclabs has partnered with Deblankson Associates to provide a guide to one of the most critical issues of the day. In this paper Deblankson present in-depth understanding of the proposals presented by the Obama Administration to reform regulation of the financial services industry in the U.S. and the impact that these proposals will have on the industry.