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2 December 2008

Asian HIV/Aids Database launched

A new UN-backed website has launched providing details of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the Asia Pacific region, bringing together a host
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26 November 2008

IB Solutions to develop database of Irish doctors

IB Solutions, an IBA Health Group company, has won a five-year contract to develop a system for the country’s 17,000
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18 November 2008

IT costs factored into organ donor decision

The UK Organ Donation Taskforce this week came out against moving to a system of presumed consent for organ donation,
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6 October 2008

GP seeks urgent response on SCR legality

A GP who is seeking publication of the Department of Health’s legal advice on plans for the Summary Care Record
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4 September 2008

Call for ‘rolling’ register to replace census

Data from GP patient registers could be one of a range of databases used to provide a ‘rolling’ register of
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1 September 2008

ContactPoint delayed for further testing

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been delayed until January 2009. The pilot of the delayed programme
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27 August 2008

Police to get access to national child database

Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal
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25 August 2008

Information prescriptions to be linked to electronic records

The Department of Health is this week expected to set out its vision for information prescriptions that are linked to
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8 August 2008

Further role for NHS Choices in DES guidance

Patients will be able to check whether their GP practice meets national data accreditation standards via NHS Choices, according to
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5 August 2008

Doctors complain about rating website

Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month
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