12 February 2014

Crisis of confidence in care.data – RCGP

The Royal College of General Practitioners has called on NHS England to provide urgent reassurance about the safeguards surrounding its
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12 February 2014

Hunt predicts US-UK ‘single market’

A memorandum of understanding signed by the US and UK will help to create the world’s largest single market for
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11 February 2014

Survey shows readers wary on care.data

Around two thirds of respondents to EHI’s survey on care.data plan to opt themselves out of the data-sharing initiative.
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10 February 2014

Davies departure leaves ‘clinical hole’

Clinicians are concerned that the departure of the director of clinical and public assurance from the Health and Social Care
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10 February 2014

Ortivus wins £10m ambulance contract

Two southern ambulance trusts have awarded a £10m contract to Swedish company Ortivus to provide a managed electronic care record
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7 February 2014

Re-identifying care.data illegal

There is a “theoretical risk” that data released to researchers from the care.data programme could be used to re-identify patients,
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6 February 2014

NHS will be dependent on EHRs – Hunt

The health service will become “totally dependent” on electronic health records over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt
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6 February 2014

CQC highlights record access problems

Princess Royal University Hospital in Bromley must urgently address problems with access to medical records, England's chief inspector of hospitals
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6 February 2014

HSCIC strategy focuses on integration

The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s strategy for 2013-15 puts a new emphasis on the need to support integration
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5 February 2014

Digitising expenses saves trust money

An NHS Trust saved 20% on its expenses spend after digitising its claims process using Expenses Health.
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