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27 December 2012

Child protection database plans revived

A fresh £8.6m initiative to co-ordinate NHS and social services data to improve child protection has been announced by the
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26 July 2010

ContactPoint to close on 6 August

The controversial children’s database ContactPoint is to be shut down on 6 August, the government has announced. In a written
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22 June 2010

ContactPoint to be replaced

The children’s database ContactPoint is to continue to operate in a scaled down version while the government decides what should
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9 June 2010

NHS Scotland gets Knowledge Network

A professional social networking site for NHS staff in Scotland has been unveiled by Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon.
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26 May 2010

Web calculator identifies statins risks

Researchers have developed a web calculator to identify patients at high-risk of adverse events from statins after a study found
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19 May 2010

QRISK2 goes open source

The heart disease risk assessment tool QRisk2 has been made available as open source software by Nottingham University and healthcare
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14 May 2010

QRISK2 gets more support

The heart disease risk score QRISK2 is more accurate at identifying people in the UK at high risk of cardiovascular
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13 May 2010

ContactPoint to be scrapped

The controversial children’s database ContactPoint is to be scrapped by the new government, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have revealed.
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15 April 2010

EHI Interview: Norman Lamb

As part of EHI’s general election coverage, Sarah Bruce talks to the Lib Dem health spokesman.
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12 April 2010

Inquiry into transplant database errors

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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