Care.data

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Directions for GP extract to be approved

NHS England’s board is being asked to approve directions to the Health and Social Care Information Centre to start large
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EHI interview: Dr Mark Davies

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is thinking about how best to fulfil its remit of being the focal
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GP group does care.data campaign

The Emis National User Group has created an alternative information campaign for practices to advertise the controversial GP extract programme
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Health data access for just £1

NHS England wants to reduce the cost for researchers to access expanded healthcare datasets from around £30,000 to £1.
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EPRs essential for HES expansion plans

Hospitals will need electronic patient record systems to meet NHS England’s “ambitious” plans for extracting a significantly expanded hospital dataset
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EHI interview: Kingsley Manning

The new chair of the new Health and Social Care Information Centre talks to Jon Hoeksma about its ambition to
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Another view: of the future

GP Neil Paul has been interviewing for an IT manager for his local CCG. Candidates need to think more radically
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Care.data implemented this month

The first GP data extractions for the care.data programme start this month.
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NHS England to publish IT strategy

NHS England is developing an NHS Technology Strategy and Roadmap, setting a national direction for NHS IT.
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Privacy watchdogs back biting NHS

Well-known privacy campaigners have launched a new initiative to try and stop NHS England’s GP Extraction Service in its tracks.
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