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CQC to use QinetiQ software to mine data

The Care Quality Commission will start piloting intelligent data mining software similar to that used by the intelligence service to
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Information Centre wins in ALB review

The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health’s arms length body review with a promise that
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Keogh to lead work on new stats for NHS

The government has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in
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Acute trusts go-live with Bluespier EDS

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have gone live with a new electronic discharge system
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CQC raises discharge concerns

Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according
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Brown promises to unlock NHS data

Gordon Brown has promised to “radically open up data and public information.” Launching the ‘Putting the frontline first: smarter government’
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Dr Foster names safety underperformers

The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient
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Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011

The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that
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CQC criticises discharge summaries

The Care Quality Commission has warned that the NHS may be failing to prevent harm to patients by failing to
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CQC warns on registration

The Care Quality Commission has warned that many trusts have significant work ahead of them to improve their performance, if they are
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