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All NHS providers must send digital discharge summaries to GPs using standard clinical headings by December this year, the new draft NHS standard contract says.
NHS improvement has published a league table of NHS trusts according to their openness and transparency.
This month’s round-up covers new chief information officer appointments Lewisham and Greenwich, Sandwell and West Birmingham and Morecambe Bay NHS trusts.
NHS England has set aside ÂŁ55 million to reward GPs and hospitals to increase the uptake of electronic referrals to 100% by 2018.
Challenges with booking and reporting patient activity following the implementation of Lorenzo at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are contributing to major activity under-performance, which has cost the trust ÂŁ12 million to date.
The Wellcome Trust has returned to the debate about the use of health data with a report arguing that researchers and companies must show ‘public benefit’ for sharing to be acceptable.
Seventeen health and social care organisations across Berkshire will share the care records of 855,000 patients using CareCentric software from Graphnet.
Today’s briefing includes a tool to detect breast cancer using magnetic resonance imaging and a
Figures from across the health sector have cautiously welcomed the news that NHS England is
More than 5,000 data breaches have been recorded across NHS Scotland health boards since January
More than half of patients said it was easy to contact their GP practice using
NHS England is expanding the rollout of Hexarad to help patients in the North East
