Information Centre

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18 February 2013

Info centre to run DMICs

New Data Management Integration Centres, being developed within the NHS Commissioning Board, will have to become part of the Health
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20 December 2010

SUS boosted by Operating Framework

The NHS has been told that it should be using the Secondary Uses Service as the “standard repository” for health
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10 August 2010

DH reviews Dr Foster Intelligence

The future of Dr Foster Intelligence, the UK’s best known provider of hospital performance information and analysis, is under review
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26 July 2010

Information Centre wins in ALB review

The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health’s arms length body review with a promise that
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13 July 2010

Lansley leads information revolution

The new NHS white paper promises an information strategy for the NHS this autumn, but a report from the National
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3 June 2010

Data published as Whitehall is reviewed

The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts
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24 February 2010

Mid Staffs report demands stats overhaul

An independent report into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has called for an “impeccably independent and transparent
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13 January 2010

IMS Health wins IC indicators contract

US-based healthcare intelligence company IMS Health has been chosen to produce clinical indicators for the NHS Choices website, taking over
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30 November 2009

Dr Foster names safety underperformers

The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient
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2 November 2009

Mind the gap

Brian Derry from the NHS Information Centre reflects on the coming financial crunch and how informatics can help the NHS
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