Data sharing

Archive
23 March 2009

Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database

A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal
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9 March 2009

Data sharing clause 152 dropped

The government has dropped its controversial plans to make it easier to share personal data across Whitehall departments. Justice Secretary
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3 March 2009

Coroners Bill protest escalates

Eight healthcare organisations have called for medical records to be excluded from the data-sharing provisions of the Coroners and Justice
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19 February 2009

BCS and ICO join Coroners protest

The British Computer Society and the Information Commissioner’s Office have joined the growing swell of concern about the data sharing
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4 February 2009

Demonstrators make slow progress

Around 650 people are using new assistive care technologies as part of the Whole System Demonstrator project, according to the
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2 February 2009

BMA calls for exemption on data sharing

The BMA is calling for confidential health information to be exempt from new government legislation which will allow sharing of
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27 January 2009

Detailed Care Records for 3.5m patients

More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care,
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26 January 2009

Making a Detailed Care Record a reality

Tony Megaw, head of primary care IT for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, tells Fiona Barr how a primary care
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29 December 2008

Here was the news for 2008

The past 12 months in primary care IT have seen the implementation of a scheme to secure GP IT system
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17 November 2008

Cayton stakes claim to independence of NIGB

The new chair of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care has criticised plans to make it
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