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App improves staff access to documents at Mid and South Essex

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is using the MyStaff app to improve staff access to information vital to
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Report says government must address failures in digital transformation

The government needs to address previous failures in its digital transformation plans for the health service, a parliamentary committee report
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Government progress on digitising the NHS ‘inadequate’ says Commons Expert Panel

The Government is making inadequate progress on vital commitments to digitise the NHS, an independent expert panel has found, with
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Goldacre says TREs will mitigate harmful data risks and ‘earn public trust’

Professor Ben Goldacre has told the Science and Tech Committee that Trusted Research Environments (TREs) will mitigate data risks and
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NHS overhaul: Health and Care Bill formally introduced to parliament

The government’s Health and Care Bill, which sets out plans to reform the NHS to deliver more joined up care,
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NHS digitisation means mail blunder “unlikely” to occur again, Hunt tells Commons 

The shift to electronic systems will mean the blunder of 709,000 medical correspondence items not delivered is "unlikely" to occur
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Health IT news in brief

Today’s health IT news in brief covers the rollout of a paediatric diabetes information management system, a new accreditation for
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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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MPs back technology for patient safety

MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve
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CfH one of ‘big three’ users of consultants

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has identified NHS Connecting for Health as one of the big three users of management
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