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28 January 2008

To donate or not to donate?

Prime Minister Gordon Brown says every British citizen should automatically regarded as an organ donor through a ‘presumed consent’ scheme.
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24 January 2008

System user groups launch GP choice campaign

Five GP system national user groups have launched a campaign to support GPs’ right to IT system choice. The five
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22 January 2008

Moving to hosted systems

Disagreement over extended access could impact the speed of movement to hosted systems. Fiona Barr reports.
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17 January 2008

Trusts block junior doctors checking job e-mails

Junior doctors are unable to find out if they have been offered jobs because their trusts block access to popular
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10 January 2008

National IT system needed for medical recruitment

In his final report into the Modernising Medical Careers scheme, Sir John Tooke has labelled the online Medical Training Application
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4 January 2008

C+B incentives to go to extended access

GP incentive payments for Choose and Book will be redirected to pay for extended access to GP practices from April
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3 January 2008

Four-fifths of doctors say electronic record insecure

Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database –
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20 December 2007

After the security storm

Data security experts believe the recent HMRC recent data disaster holds vital lessons for the health service, EHI editor Linda
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20 December 2007

DH found guilty on MTAS data protection breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office has found the Department of Health in breach of the Data Protection Act following an investigation
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11 December 2007

DH offers guidance on GP patient survey

The Department of Health has issued guidance to GP practices on how its £10m survey on GP patient access and
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