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25 February 2015

Scots NHS register sharing plans slammed

The Scottish government is facing criticism over plans to share information held in an NHS database with other public bodies.
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19 February 2015

Put GPs on NHS 111 calls – Hakin

Providers of the NHS 111 telephone service should have GPs on hand to provide clinical advice at peak times, according
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31 October 2014

Birmingham rethinks failed record plan

Plans to establish a Birmingham central care record have been cut back and given to a new organisation, after the
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2 October 2014

EHI interview: Paul Cundy

The Wimbledon GP and voice of IT for the BMA’s GP committee is not afraid to speak his mind. Sam
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11 August 2014

Police chief calls for records access

Police should be given greater access to medical records without patient consent, a senior police chief has argued in an
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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 “go down like a lead balloon” 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 “listen” 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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