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Simon Stevens to head NHS England

Simon Stevens, a one-time Blairite health advisor, has been announced as the new chief executive of NHS England.
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EHI interview: Tim Kelsey

EHI news editor Rebecca Todd speaks to NHS England’s director of patients and information Tim Kelsey - one of the
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SCR opt-out does not apply to care.data

Care.data information leaflets being sent to households in January will tell patients that an opt-out of the Summary Care Record
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NHS 111 procurements on hold

Clinical commissioning groups have been told not to agree any NHS 111 contracts to start before April 2015 while NHS
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£1m national leaflet drop on care.data

The government will spend £1m sending a patient information leaflet about the controversial care.data programme to every household in England.
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Spine2 built on Riak database

The replacement for the NHS data Spine is being built around a distributed, open source database called Riak from US
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3ML pathfinder programme under review

NHS England is reviewing the struggling pathfinder programme that was supposed to deliver 100,000 telehealth users by the end of
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Care.data extractions on hold

Extractions of GP data for care.data have been halted while issues around patient awareness of the scheme are resolved.
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Another view

GP Neil Paul is just getting to grips with NHS England’s plans for care.data – and he’s worried about them.
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Info standards site launched

A new website dedicated to information standards in health and social care has been launched today.
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