HES

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22 September 2015

Care.data delayed by two years

Final approval for the ‘pathfinder’ stage of the controversial care.data programme to go ahead will not be given until early
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4 July 2014

HSCIC warns of HES confidentiality

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has asked a “significant” number of trusts to delete data containing Hospital Episode
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17 June 2014

HSCIC review finds data release ‘lapses’

A Health and Social Care Information Centre review has uncovered “lapses” in how its predecessor organisation shared patient data, and
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17 April 2014

HSCIC reviews HES access

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is reviewing access to the Hospital Episode Statistics and other national datasets.
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9 April 2014

HSCIC admits to four HES data breaches

The Health and Social Care Information centre has admitted to repeated data breaches involving the Hospital Episode Statistics.
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19 March 2014

Kelsey admits care.data use unclear

NHS England delayed the care.data programme because it could not give guarantees on how the data would be used, NHS
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3 March 2014

HES data handled in Google cloud

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has spent another day fire-fighting concerns about care.data, following reports that different companies
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31 October 2013

HES consultation attracts 164 responses

A consultation on plans to greatly expand the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset and make it available for electronic extraction attracted
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
16 October 2013

£1m national leaflet drop on care.data

The government will spend £1m sending a patient information leaflet about the controversial care.data programme to every household in England.
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23 September 2013

BJSS re-engineers HES platform

BJSS has re-engineered the data platform supporting Hospital Episode Statistics, reducing the data processing time from 20 days to five.
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