Premier IT Partnership Ltd.

HeART - Appraisal and Revalidation for Nurses, AHPs

HeART is an e-Portfolio built to manage appraisal, revalidation and education for nurses, midwives and other staff. Benefit from an RCN accredited framework to manage your NMC revalidation and appraisals. Facilitate improvement and deliver high-quality patient care, ensuring staff are fully trained, highly skilled, up-to-date and fit to practice

Features

  • Portfolio of evidence
  • Practice hours log
  • Written reflections
  • Practice-related feedback
  • Third-party confirmation
  • CPD recording
  • Integrated e-Learning
  • Appraisal management
  • Revalidation managment
  • Management reporting

Benefits

  • Introduce a streamlined online appraisal process to conduct strengthened appraisals
  • Maintain an always ready portfolio for NMC revalidation submission
  • RCN Accredited as part of the HeART Appraisal Framework
  • Provide a measurement and assurance tool for commissioners
  • Mobile friendly system so evidence is uploaded on the go
  • Map objectives, frameworks and training to users based on roles
  • Access to free and discounted guides, e-Learning, training and events

Pricing

£9 to £29 a person a year

  • Education pricing available
  • Free trial available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

7 8 8 2 4 1 2 5 3 6 6 5 3 2 2

Contact

Premier IT Partnership Ltd. Simon Monkman
Telephone: 07983 135545
Email: smonkman@premierit.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
None
System requirements
  • Internet connection
  • A modern web browser

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Monday - Sunday - 8:30 - 17:30 - Maximum 24 hour response turnaround time.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
Web chat
Web chat support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support accessibility standard
WCAG 2.1 A
Web chat accessibility testing
We have a QA team with the ability to test from every possible user perspective.
Onsite support
No
Support levels
We provide phone and email support, with no additional costs
Support available to third parties
No

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
We provide on and off-site training for new users
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Requests can be made via account manager for data export options
End-of-contract process
At the end of a client's contract all data pertaining to that account will be destroyed. There are no additional costs involved.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
None
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
Description of service interface
Zendesk Support - a system for tracking, prioritising, and solving customer support tickets.
Accessibility standards
WCAG 2.1 A
Accessibility testing
Manual testing
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Our APIs contain some third party content (such as text, images, videos, audio, or software). We may sometimes review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies or the Terms, and we may remove or refuse to display content. Finally, content accessible through our APIs may be subject to intellectual property rights, and, if so, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so by the owner of that content or are otherwise permitted by law.

Premier IT does not acquire any ownership of any intellectual property rights in the content that you submit to our APIs through your API Client, except as expressly provided in the Terms. For the sole purpose of enabling Premier IT to provide, secure, and improve the APIs (and the related service(s)) and only in accordance with the applicable Premier IT privacy policies, you give Premier IT a sublicensable, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to Use content submitted, or displayed from the APIs through your API Client. "Before you submit content to our APIs through your API Client, you will ensure that you have the necessary rights (including the necessary rights from your end users) to grant us the license.
API documentation
No
API sandbox or test environment
No
Customisation available
No

Scaling

Independence of resources
Traffic load is shared over a web application pool of multiple web servers.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Access logs are available via the admin console or available on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
None

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Some data is exportable via CSV files.
Data export formats
CSV
Data import formats
CSV

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
98.9% up-time - please see terms and conditions for more information.
Approach to resilience
Available on request.
Outage reporting
Email alerts

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
User rolls.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
User-defined
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
User-defined
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Ltd
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
17/05/2017
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
All controls listed in the standard SoA for ISO27001:2013 are included in the Node4 ISMS. In general, the SoA is an internal document and we do not publish details of our individual controls. Some control statements may be referenced or included in other public facing documentation such as Physical Access Controls.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security policies and processes
The security policy ensures that: - Information is protected against any unauthorised access - Confidentiality of information is assured - Integrity of information is maintained - Availability of information for business processes is maintained - Legislative and regulatory requirements are met - Business continuity plans are developed, maintained and tested - Information security training is available for all employees - All actual or suspected information security breaches are reported to at least one of the Information Security Committee members (Company Senior Management) and are thoroughly investigated - The Information Security Policy is reviewed annually by the Information Security Committee We carry out Risk Assessments and monthly Internal Audits to ensure our compliance is adhered to. All incidents are reported/logged and dealt with immediately. All issues are dealt with initially by the Security Manager and can be cascaded all the way up to the Chairman if unresolved.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
All changes are logged whether approved or rejected on a standardised system. A documented audit trail, maintained at a Business Unit Level, shall be maintained at all times for the lifetime of each service. This should include change request documentation, change authorisation and the outcome of the change. No single person should be able to effect changes to production information systems without the approval of other authorised personnel. A risk assessment shall be performed for all changes and dependent on the outcome, an impact assessment should be performed. The impact assessment shall include the potential effect on other information resources.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
By regularly using dynamic application security testing (DAST) technologies we are able to look for security vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection, command execution, directory traversal, and insecure server configuration. We are able to deploy security patches on infrastructure and software within hours of detection. We keep up to date with security news by checking live updates from The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and The SANS Institute via notifications.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Potential compromises are usually picked up through suspicious behaviour within the application, or alternatively our supplier may be notified about high server load, for example. Any security investigation is dealt with re-actively, which means we would at first instance notify our supplier of any potential compromises. The SLA for Priority 1 incidents is 1 hour.
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
Users directly report the incidents to any member of the IT Department and a report is filled out. Incident reports are stored in our "intranet" and the person who causes the incident is spoken to.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

We have invested in technology and infrastructure to ensure that the business is both robust and adaptable to be able to cope with significant and potentially disruptive events:

Our staff have the ability to work from home and can remotely access our systems within a secure IT environment. We are also able to redirect work phone lines to the relevant contacts as required.

We have completed an inventory audit to identify those staff who might have limited access to a computer at home or where a computer is shared with other members of the household. Where this is the case, we have provided computers, configured to our requirements, and telephone headsets specifically for business use.

We have invested in highly secure, Cloud-based data server/management solutions, which are fully functional and ensure that it is business as usual irrespective of the location of staff members.

Pricing

Price
£9 to £29 a person a year
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
User-defined

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at smonkman@premierit.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.