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Information governance

The latest round of NHS reorganisation will throw up some new information governance challenges. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Two trusts use iSoft pathology tool

ISoft has announced the first UK sales of its CorVu laboratory management reporting tool.
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Birmingham OwnHealth contract extended

NHS Birmingham East and North has signed an extension with NHS Direct and Pfizer to continue to run its Birmingham
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NHS Direct explores role in new NHS

NHS Direct may offer GP appointment booking to commissioning consortia as part of its plans to work with the new
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Low figures for HealthSpace use revealed

Just 60 patients a month - out of almost 5m with a Summary Care Record - are viewing their SCR
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Birmingham telehealth cuts admissions

A telehealth project run by NHS Birmingham East and North led to an 86% drop in hospital admissions among those
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QMAS underpays GPs £27.9m

GPs have been underpaid every year for the past six years and are owed a total of £27.9m because of
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SUS anonymisation described as trivial

Fresh questions have been raised over the anonymity of de-identified patient data provided through the NHS secondary uses service for
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NHS Tayside launches prescribing app

Doctors across Tayside are now able to download an app to their Smartphone to help them prescribe appropriate drugs to
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Newcastle rolls out Cerner eprescribing

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has rolled an electronic medication management system from Cerner across all 2,000 of
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