Information governance

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15 April 2008

Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?

GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they
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2 April 2008

Patient Tsar backs tougher data theft laws

The chair of the Department of Health’s National Information Governance Board, and influential patient representative, Harry Cayton, has joined the
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12 March 2008

NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’

NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a
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11 March 2008

Four pilots for shared social care records

Three local authorities and one care trust are to pilot links between their social care systems and the NHS Personal
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4 March 2008

Healthcare assistants’ access to SCR defended

Connecting for Health has defended the decision to allow healthcare assistants to access Summary Care Records (SCRs) in accident and
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15 January 2008

Capula Healthcare awarded BSI security certificate

Capula Healthcare has been awarded a BSI ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security certificate, the key security requirement set by NHS Connecting
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15 January 2008

Six month delay to stage two of electronic prescriptions

Release two of the Electronic Prescription Service will not go live until spring or summer this year, at least six
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4 January 2008

MPs call for data loss to be a crime

Reckless or repeated breaches of data security should become a criminal offence, the House of Commons Justice Select Committee has
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21 December 2007

PCTs must roll-out summary records in 2008-09

PCT IM&T plans for the next financial year must include the roll-out of the Summary Care Record and the full
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14 December 2007

Immediate NHS data security review ordered

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has written to all NHS trust chief executives instructing them to immediately review and tighten
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