PDS

Archive
26 August 2014

Spine2 is alive

The replacement for the NHS data spine, Spine2, went live over the bank holiday weekend.
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7 April 2014

Child health not ready for end of NN4B

The NHS Number for Babies will be replaced by the Personal Demographics Service in June, even though only one child
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13 January 2014

Medway sees part for orQestra

Medway NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a spine mini service from Quicksilva to improve data sharing between systems
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25 April 2013

NHS 111 service OrQestrates PDS

The North East Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust has bought Quicksilva’s orQestra to give staff working on its 111 service real-time
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22 November 2012

Barnsley Council hooks into PDS

Barnsley Council and Liquidlogic, a McKesson company, have achieved integration of NHS and social care records using the Personal Demographics
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1 February 2012

Cheshire social care staff access PDS

Social workers and social care assessors at Cheshire East Council are accessing the NHS Personal Demographic Service using Esprit’s ShareCare
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18 April 2011

North Staffordshire OrQestrates PDS data

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has become the first acute trust to access the Personal Demographics Service from
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20 October 2009

PDS access requires ‘business reason’

Staff accessing the Personal Demographics Service must have an appropriate ‘business reason’ for doing so, but need not have a
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15 October 2009

Access code

Dr Maureen Baker, Caldicott Guardian for NHS Connecting for Health, outlines new guidance on the use of the Personal Demographics
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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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