Data sharing

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Hunt attacks GPs for OOH and IT issues

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt highlighted problems around sharing patient information as he announced that GPs would take back responsibility for
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Commissioning for outcomes a ‘priority’

NHS England is committed to a making commissioning and contracting for outcomes an “absolute priority”, its director of commissioning support
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Bexley gets Novell Filr

Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group is deploying a new file-sharing tool for staff and clinicians allowing them to access and share
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Care.data approved

The care.data programme to extract and link large amounts of primary and secondary data has been approved by an Independent
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Section 251 extension granted

NHS England has been granted "three-months' breathing space” to allow patient-identifiable information to be shared with commissioners and support services.
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Wirral shares A&E data with police

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is sharing A&E data with police, fire and ambulance services to reduce violent
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EMIS and TPP share data

EMIS and TPP are working on a data-sharing agreement to allow clinicians to see information held in each other’s systems.
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Scotland gets GP info service

Scotland is building a national information service for GP data, due to go-live in a year.
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Govt may review Bill data sharing plans

The Department of Health’s director general of informatics has signalled that the government may be prepared to look again at
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INPS wants Vision 360 to be GP system

INPS is to seek NHS Connecting for Health accreditation for its Vision 360 data hub as a GP system.
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