Care.data

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Care.data helpline receives 3,500 calls

The helpline set up to provide patients with information about care.data received nearly 3,500 calls in its first three weeks.
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Care.data: a row waiting to happen

EHI news editor Rebecca Todd takes a look back at the creation of the care.data programme and the concerns many
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Care.data safeguards detailed

Patient identifiable information extracted as part of care.data will not be available via Section 251 requests while NHS England establishes
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Power to the people

Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chair of Patient Opinion, looks at the tension between big data and big voice; and
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EU rule makes research ‘impractical’

New data protection rules being proposed for the European Union would make conducting research using data in the EU “impractical”,
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Care.data cost more than £50m

The strategic outline business case for the controversial care.data programme is yet to go to Treasury for approval and involves
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Care.data: charities back info sharing

More than 40 UK medical research charities have launched a campaign to back data sharing in the NHS.
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Care.data campaign leaflet slammed

A leading privacy campaigner has condemned NHS England’s £1m leaflet drop about care.data for not including an ‘opt-out’ form.
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Five things to watch in primary care, 2014

Rebecca Todd asks primary care IT experts to identify the key issues for 2014; and finds GPSoC2, patient access, care.data,
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Joe’s view: All I want for Christmas

A Christmas Eve misunderstanding once led Joe McDonald to thump someone with a Tracey Island. He doesn’t want similar problems
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