Directions for GP extract to be approved
NHS England’s board is being asked to approve directions to the Health and Social Care Information Centre to start large monthly extracts of GP data.
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EHI interview: Dr Mark Davies
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is thinking about how best to fulfil its remit of being the focal point for collecting and publishing data, its clinical and public assurance director tells Rebecca Todd.
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GP group does care.data campaign
The Emis National User Group has created an alternative information campaign for practices to advertise the controversial GP extract programme care.data.
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Health data access for just £1
NHS England wants to reduce the cost for researchers to access expanded healthcare datasets from around £30,000 to £1.
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EPRs essential for HES expansion plans
Hospitals will need electronic patient record systems to meet NHS England’s “ambitious” plans for extracting a significantly expanded hospital dataset from April 2014.
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EHI interview: Kingsley Manning
The new chair of the new Health and Social Care Information Centre talks to Jon Hoeksma about its ambition to be “the NICE of data” – and its role handling NHS Connecting for Health’s mixed inheritance.
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Another view: of the future
GP Neil Paul has been interviewing for an IT manager for his local CCG. Candidates need to think more radically as initiatives like patient downloads of care.data come into view, he suggests.
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Care.data implemented this month
NHS England to publish IT strategy
NHS England is developing an NHS Technology Strategy and Roadmap, setting a national direction for NHS IT.
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Privacy watchdogs back biting NHS
Well-known privacy campaigners have launched a new initiative to try and stop NHS England’s GP Extraction Service in its tracks.
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