Information governance

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16 December 2008

SystmOne pilots discharge summaries

Primary care IT supplier TPP has begun to pilot electronic discharge summaries between a GP practice and hospital in north
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10 December 2008

Shake up in Informatics Planning

Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to
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9 December 2008

Informatics Planning Guidance for primary care

Local health communities must fix a two-year timeline for the full roll-out of the NHS Summary Care Record and move
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9 December 2008

Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi

NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11,
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3 December 2008

IT underpins NHS reform in Queen’s speech

The government is planning to introduce a health bill to Parliament that will require further investment in IT and new
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19 November 2008

Left to their own devices?

An E-Health Insider survey has revealed a mixed picture on mobile device security. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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19 November 2008

Survey reveals mixed picture on device security

NHS organisations have tightened up on mobile device security in response to the recent spate of data breaches from the
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17 November 2008

Cayton stakes claim to independence of NIGB

The new chair of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care has criticised plans to make it
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7 November 2008

Harry Cayton to chair new patient data body

Harry Cayton OBE Harry Cayton OBE is to chair the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care
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30 September 2008

Nicholson highlights GP data risks

The Information Commissioner has identified GPs as a data security risk, according to David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS.
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