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15 July 2014

Central funding of NHSmail SMS to end

Plans to end central funding of email-to-SMS services for NHSmail2 will ā€œgo down like a lead balloonā€ with GPs, a
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The UK Houses of Parliament
2 July 2014

Caldicott to oversee care.data pilot

The pilot phase of the controversial care.data programme will be subject to scrutiny from an independent panel led by Dame
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26 June 2014

Kelsey says ‘listen with data’

NHS commissioners cannot ā€œlistenā€ to what patients need without tools such as care.data to help them Tim Kelsey has argued,
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25 June 2014

BMA votes for care.data opt-in

The British Medical Association has voted in favour of making care.data an opt-in system rather than an opt-out one, following
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29 May 2014

GPs call for patient opt-in to care.data

GPs have called for patients to be able to opt in to their data being extracted from GP practices as
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4 November 2013

Nagpaul backs ‘measured’ access approach

A measured approach to providing online access to patient records is necessary to make sure that the GP profession is
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1 August 2013

Dial 111 for an emergency

Itā€™s been another bad week for NHS 111. Lis Evenstad reports on a service that is becoming a by-word for
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30 July 2013

Inquiries needed into NHS 111 ‘disgrace’

The government should announce a parliamentary inquiry into the chaotic contracting and deployment of NHS 111, a BMA spokesperson says.
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18 July 2013

Dr Chaand Nagpaul new GPC chair

Dr Chaand Nagpaul has been elected as the new leader of the BMAā€™s GP Committee.
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7 June 2013

ChangingNHS portal launched

The British Medical Association has launched a web portal to help people understand the changes happening in the NHS.
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