Care.data on hold again
Controversial patient data collection programme care.data has been put on hold again while a review of the opt-out model is completed.
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Over-budget GPES has no future – NAO
Significant delays to the General Practice Extraction Service have seen costs rise from £14 million to £40 million – and design failures mean it is unlikely to have a long-term future, a National Audit Office report has said.
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Care.data, NHS.uk and N4 get red lights
The successful delivery of care.data, NHS.uk and N4 “appears to be unachievable”, with all three major projects getting red lights, according to a report published by the government’s Major Projects Authority.
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HSCIC confident in care.data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is confident that its current communications plans for care.data will be passed by the UK’s data guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott.
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Care.data re-launched this month
One of the four care.data pathfinders will start contacting patients about the re-launch of the controversial scheme later this month.
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Delay to 700,000 patient opt-outs
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is “extremely concerned” that 700,000 patient objections to having their identifiable data shared have yet to be enacted more than a year on from being registered with a GP.
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Care.data stuck in the last chance saloon
Critics of care.data say it is sitting in the “last chance saloon”. Sam Sachdeva looks at its prospects in the second of EHI News’ features looking back over the major healthcare IT initiatives of the coalition government.
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EU ministers back data privacy changes
The European Union has provisionally agreed changes to planned data privacy legislation that will make it easier to share data between health and social care services.
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Data advisory group to disband
The independent advisory group set up to review requests for GP patient data is being disbanded in favour of two organisations that separate data collection and data dissemination.
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Care.data on hold until election
Lingering questions dogging NHS England’s controversial care.data programme will hold up data extractions until after the May general election, Tim Kelsey has confirmed for the first time.
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