£1m national leaflet drop on care.data

The government will spend £1m sending a patient information leaflet about the controversial care.data programme to every household in England.
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Guy’s gives clinical guidelines via app

A clinical guidelines and hospital contacts app will be introduced at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust before the
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Imperial spends £4.6m on EPR consultants

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has spent £4.6m on external consultants for its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record programme since
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CQRS hits technical problems

Technical problems with a new service for calculating payments for GP practices mean practices have to manually enter data for
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Spine2 built on Riak database

The replacement for the NHS data Spine is being built around a distributed, open source database called Riak from US
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IG review panel to report on progress

A new independent panel overseeing the implementation of the Caldicott2 review of information governance will provide a progress report in
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Levin warns on NHS open source approach

The former chief technology officer of the US Department of Veterans Affairs has warned that NHS England’s bid to bring
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3ML pathfinder programme under review

NHS England is reviewing the struggling pathfinder programme that was supposed to deliver 100,000 telehealth users by the end of
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Decision expected on NPfIT exit costs

Trusts are hoping for an announcement soon on whether they or central government will bear the cost of exiting National
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Care.data extractions on hold

Extractions of GP data for care.data have been halted while issues around patient awareness of the scheme are resolved.
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