Care.data

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26 February 2014

‘Exciting’ care.data info plan promised

NHS England will use the six month delay to care.data to launch a re-engagement programme to get the public on
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25 February 2014

Care.data should be opt-in – Jarman

The care.data programme should be opt-in not opt-out, well-known health data expert Professor Brian Jarman has said.
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18 February 2014

Care.data delayed

NHS England has announced a delay to the start of care.data extractions to allow more time to build public confidence
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17 February 2014

Care.data: a media.disaster

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the care.data programme, the leaflet campaign and media response have been disastrous. Lyn Whitfield
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12 February 2014

Crisis of confidence in care.data – RCGP

The Royal College of General Practitioners has called on NHS England to provide urgent reassurance about the safeguards surrounding its
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11 February 2014

Survey shows readers wary on care.data

Around two thirds of respondents to EHI’s survey on care.data plan to opt themselves out of the data-sharing initiative.
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7 February 2014

Re-identifying care.data illegal

There is a “theoretical risk” that data released to researchers from the care.data programme could be used to re-identify patients,
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6 February 2014

NHS will be dependent on EHRs – Hunt

The health service will become “totally dependent” on electronic health records over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt
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5 February 2014

Another view

Neil Paul wonders why it is so hard to get information out of GP systems, and whether the new GP
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Information Commissioner's Office
4 February 2014

Care.data opt-out ‘not clear’ – ICO

The Information Commissioner’s Office is concerned that the information provided to patients on care.data is not clear enough about how
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