Inquiry Archives

17 March 2009

Better data to inform resource allocation and more evaluation of government policies are needed to tackle the widening gap in

5 March 2009

A company making IT systems to prevent wrong-site surgery has welcomed the launch of a national patient safety policy focusing

26 January 2009

The government has launched its national children’s database, ContactPoint, which will provide demographic data on every child in the country

7 January 2009

The General Medical Council has rejected calls for it to investigate the IT and selection procedures for Modernising Medical Careers.

11 August 2008

A senior hospital manager, who lost a laptop containing the unencrypted records of more than 20,000 patients while he was

14 July 2008

Doctors’ representatives have called for an independent inquiry into Connecting for Health and demanded that trusts be allowed to seek

8 July 2008

The NHS was born 60 years ago. Computers are a more recent invention but technology is about more than computers,

2 July 2008

A senior hospital manager has been suspended after a laptop computer containing the unencrypted records of over 20,000 patients was

10 January 2008

In his final report into the Modernising Medical Careers scheme, Sir John Tooke has labelled the online Medical Training Application

12 December 2007

Almost two thousand NHS staff on Merseyside have had their personal details, including National Insurance, pension and salary details, accidently

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