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NHS Scotland aims for electronic records from 2010

Delivering for Health, the board responsible for IT in NHS Scotland, says it will act on the key recommendations of
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Apollo patient data mining software may breach DPA

A primary care IM&T adviser has recommended that GP practices do not use Department of Health supplied software to extract
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Online care pathways for cancer developed

The NHS Cancer Services Collaborative ‘Improvement Partnership’ (CSCIP) has developed a national electronic information pathway designed to point cancer patients
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Guidance on exception reporting published

The publication of exception reporting data for the Quality and Outcomes Framework will reveal total numbers of patients excepted for
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GP practices to pilot updating details on nhs.uk

A pilot is underway to enable GP practices to update and maintain their own entries on www.nhs.uk – the official
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NHS data ‘not accurate enough’ to assess doctors

NHS hospital episode data is not accurate enough to monitor individual doctors’ performance, according to a pilot study conducted by
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