NHS Number

Archive
27 April 2011

GPs urged to call up NHS Number

The NHS Number Programme has issued guidance to encourage the use of the NHS Number in general practice.
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17 September 2009

NHS Number limitations confirmed

The National Patient Safety Agency has confirmed that community pharmacists, community nurses and other groups of NHS workers will be
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24 August 2009

Local campaigns for NHS Number

The Department of Health and NHS Connecting for Health have announced that they will not be launching a public awareness
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18 August 2009

NHS Number exemptions expected

Community pharmacists and other groups of NHS workers will be made exempt from the national requirement to use the NHS
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30 April 2009

Social care to use NHS Number

The Department of Health has announced that the NHS Number can be used in social care to link social care
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8 April 2009

Two thirds of GPs sign up for IGSoC

Around two-thirds of GP practices had signed up to NHS Connecting for Health’s information governance standards by the deadline of the
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15 December 2008

SCR integrated into Adastra

Out-of-hours provider Adastra has delivered an integrated solution for the Summary Care Record that will make access to the SCR
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9 December 2008

Keogh promotes use of the NHS Number

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has written to all NHS chief executives and medical directors to promote wider use of the
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5 November 2008

Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it

Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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23 October 2008

First ever record standards to improve discharge summaries

Profession-wide standards for medical records in hospitals have been agreed.
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