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27 March 2017

Hester hits back over TPP patient data security concerns

TPP founder Frank Hester has waded defiantly into the growing controversy about how his company shares patients GP records across
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22 March 2016

Patient record access: March target likely to be met

All GPs will be able to offer patients online access to their ‘detailed coded record’ by the end of the
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26 May 2015

NHS 111 should be scrapped – GPs

NHS 111 should be “scrapped” in its current form, GP leaders have said.
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9 April 2015

Care.data stuck in the last chance saloon

Critics of care.data say it is sitting in the “last chance saloon”. Sam Sachdeva looks at its prospects in the
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25 March 2015

Calling up a storm

Thomas Meek looks at the troubled history of NHS 111 in the first of a short series of features looking
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25 February 2015

Scots NHS register sharing plans slammed

The Scottish government is facing criticism over plans to share information held in an NHS database with other public bodies.
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19 February 2015

Put GPs on NHS 111 calls – Hakin

Providers of the NHS 111 telephone service should have GPs on hand to provide clinical advice at peak times, according
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31 October 2014

Birmingham rethinks failed record plan

Plans to establish a Birmingham central care record have been cut back and given to a new organisation, after the
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2 October 2014

EHI interview: Paul Cundy

The Wimbledon GP and voice of IT for the BMA’s GP committee is not afraid to speak his mind. Sam
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11 August 2014

Police chief calls for records access

Police should be given greater access to medical records without patient consent, a senior police chief has argued in an
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