PCTI pilots Docman Collaborator

A discussion platform for health professionals developed by PCTI is being piloted by GP practices and clinical commissioning groups.
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Merseyside HIS floats cloud service

Informatics Merseyside is hoping to deliver a minimum 15% saving on IT spend for its customers after signing a framework
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Data for GP comparison scores published

Data published today by the NHS Information Centre will be used to rank GP surgeries, which will be given an
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Glasgow portal extended to community

The Greater Glasgow and Clyde clinical portal has reached “saturation” among acute users and is now being rolled out to
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MDU warns on email address fields

Doctors are being warned about the dangers of inadvertently breaching patient confidentiality when sending out group emails to patients.
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Brighton and Sussex to appeal data fine

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has said it “simply cannot afford to pay” a £325,000 fine handed down
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London trusts test research platform

King’s Health Partners has deployed a “ground breaking” research platform that has extracted anonymised data on 25,000 breast cancer patients.
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TPP to launch ResearchOne

TPP has launched a healthcare research database that could hold up to 20m patient records.
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Caldicott to tackle fear of data sharing

Junior staff members who are unsure of the “rights and wrongs” of information governance are preventing data sharing that could
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Brighton fined record £325,000 by ICO

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been issued the highest ever fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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