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27 December 2012

A fresh £8.6m initiative to co-ordinate NHS and social services data to improve child protection has been announced by the

26 July 2010

The controversial children’s database ContactPoint is to be shut down on 6 August, the government has announced. In a written

22 June 2010

The children’s database ContactPoint is to continue to operate in a scaled down version while the government decides what should

9 June 2010

A professional social networking site for NHS staff in Scotland has been unveiled by Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon.

26 May 2010

Researchers have developed a web calculator to identify patients at high-risk of adverse events from statins after a study found

19 May 2010

The heart disease risk assessment tool QRisk2 has been made available as open source software by Nottingham University and healthcare

14 May 2010

The heart disease risk score QRISK2 is more accurate at identifying people in the UK at high risk of cardiovascular

13 May 2010

The controversial children’s database ContactPoint is to be scrapped by the new government, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have revealed.

15 April 2010

As part of EHI’s general election coverage, Sarah Bruce talks to the Lib Dem health spokesman.

12 April 2010

An independent review has been launched into how as many as 800,000 people on the UK organ donor register had their preferences

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