Care.data helpline receives 3,500 calls
The helpline set up to provide patients with information about care.data received nearly 3,500 calls in its first three weeks.
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Care.data: a row waiting to happen
EHI news editor Rebecca Todd takes a look back at the creation of the care.data programme and the concerns many have about its implications for patient privacy.
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Care.data safeguards detailed
Patient identifiable information extracted as part of care.data will not be available via Section 251 requests while NHS England establishes trust in the data sharing programme.
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Power to the people
Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chair of Patient Opinion, looks at the tension between big data and big voice; and how it is being played out around care.data.
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EU rule makes research ‘impractical’
New data protection rules being proposed for the European Union would make conducting research using data in the EU “impractical”, the Department of Health says.
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Care.data cost more than £50m
The strategic outline business case for the controversial care.data programme is yet to go to Treasury for approval and involves a spend of more than £50m.
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Care.data: charities back info sharing
More than 40 UK medical research charities have launched a campaign to back data sharing in the NHS.
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Care.data campaign leaflet slammed
A leading privacy campaigner has condemned NHS England’s £1m leaflet drop about care.data for not including an ‘opt-out’ form.
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Five things to watch in primary care, 2014
Rebecca Todd asks primary care IT experts to identify the key issues for 2014; and finds GPSoC2, patient access, care.data, information governance and commissioning data at the top of their lists.
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Joe’s view: All I want for Christmas
A Christmas Eve misunderstanding once led Joe McDonald to thump someone with a Tracey Island. He doesn’t want similar problems to lead the NHS into being walloped with its own data.
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