DH issues guidance on ‘safe havens’
The Department of Health has issued guidance on the creation of patient data āsafe havensā that will govern access to confidential data held by Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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The Department of Health has issued guidance on the creation of patient data āsafe havensā that will govern access to confidential data held by Health and Social Care Information Centre.
The NHS will not reach its full potential without sharing electronic patient records across health and social care, Jeremy Hunt has said in a speech that once again backed the widespread use of IT in health and social care.
New regulations on how patient identifiable data can be provided to commissioners should be in place by the end of 2014, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre have said.
Nine commissioning support unit alliances have been created, based on a mix of partnerships and merging CSUs, NHS England has announced.
NHS commissioners cannot ālistenā to what patients need without tools such as care.data to help them Tim Kelsey has argued, while again ruling out an opt-in model for the controversial programme.
The NHS needs to earn back the trust of patients in the way that it handles data, the chair of the HSCIC has said in a speech that also promised action on ‘accredited safe havens’ for commissioning data shortly.
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