‘Exciting’ care.data info plan promised
NHS England will use the six month delay to care.data to launch a re-engagement programme to get the public on board, national director of patients and information Tim Kelsey has told MPs.
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Care.data should be opt-in – Jarman
The care.data programme should be opt-in not opt-out, well-known health data expert Professor Brian Jarman has said.
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Care.data delayed
NHS England has announced a delay to the start of care.data extractions to allow more time to build public confidence in the scheme.
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Care.data: a media.disaster
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the care.data programme, the leaflet campaign and media response have been disastrous. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Crisis of confidence in care.data – RCGP
The Royal College of General Practitioners has called on NHS England to provide urgent reassurance about the safeguards surrounding its new data-sharing programme, saying it is suffering a “crisis of public confidence”.
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Survey shows readers wary on care.data
Around two thirds of respondents to EHI’s survey on care.data plan to opt themselves out of the data-sharing initiative.
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Re-identifying care.data illegal
There is a “theoretical risk” that data released to researchers from the care.data programme could be used to re-identify patients, but this would be a criminal offence, NHS England’s director of patients and information has said.
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NHS will be dependent on EHRs – Hunt
The health service will become “totally dependent” on electronic health records over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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Another view
Neil Paul wonders why it is so hard to get information out of GP systems, and whether the new GP Systems of Choice framework will generate some much-needed changes.
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Care.data opt-out ‘not clear’ – ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office is concerned that the information provided to patients on care.data is not clear enough about how to opt out of the programme.
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