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23 March 2009

Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database

A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal
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20 March 2009

PACS group demands action on NHS Number

Why isn’t it compulsory to use the NHS Number as the primary identifier for patients in England, just as the
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18 March 2009

Data blindness

The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far
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17 March 2009

Mid Staffs death rates – poor care not poor data

A trust that tried to blame high death rates on inadequate systems for recording patient data is to be condemned
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17 March 2009

MPs demand action on health inequalities

Better data to inform resource allocation and more evaluation of government policies are needed to tackle the widening gap in
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10 March 2009

Government turns up the heat on patient power

The government has set out its vision for the future shape of public services, which includes giving patients greater choice
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5 March 2009

NPSA Never Events policy welcomed

A company making IT systems to prevent wrong-site surgery has welcomed the launch of a national patient safety policy focusing
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4 March 2009

Hong Kong plans e-health records

Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau has set out healthcare reform plans that include proposals to develop a Hong Kong-wide
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25 February 2009

epSOS makes strong start

Europe’s flagship 12-nation electronic health record interoperability project, epSOS, has made a strong start with new countries now asking to
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24 February 2009

MHRA warning on internet scam

The UK’s medicines and healthcare products watchdog has warned HIV and Aids sufferers not to fall for an internet scam
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