Care.data

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21 February 2017

NHS Digital will not face “regulatory action” from ICO

NHS Digital will not face "regulatory action" from ICO for not honouring patients' Type 2 opt outs, which allows your
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A doctor collecting information on a patient using various mobile devices
30 January 2017

Move to implement patient ‘data lake’ scheme

After meeting with NHS data experts and tech companies, NHS England chief information officer Will Smart wants to push on
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18 January 2017

New national NHS patient “data lake” proposed based on STPs

NHS England and NHS Digital meet with IT suppliers, including Google Deepmind and Microsoft, to discuss how to build new
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6 December 2016

NHS Digital sees off patient privacy challenge

NHS Digital has seen off a challenge to the way its anonymises millions of patients’ data, with a verdict finding
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26 September 2016

Data breaches ongoing as NHS Digital pushes opt-outs

Patients who opted out of sharing their data beyond direct care have not yet had their wishes respected, as NHS
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25 August 2016

Care.data concerns as new platform proposed

A proposal for a new platform for the national collection of confidential patient information is under consideration, as concerns continue
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4 August 2016

Campaigners fear care.data plans still live

Parts of the controversial care.data programme could live on but with fewer options for patients to opt-out, MedConfidential has warned.
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4 August 2016

Care.data: gone but not forgotten

Care.data has been officially dead for more than a month, but its legacy is far from buried. Ben Heather takes
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1 August 2016

Top digital job for Kelsey in Australia

The former NHS England digital boss is back on top down under.
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6 July 2016

Care.data dumped after Caldicott review

The controversial care.data programme has been killed off following the release of Dame Fiona Caldicott's report recommending sweeping changes to
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