Data

Archive
22 July 2016

Blackwood handed health IT

Nicola Blackwood has been handed responsibility for health IT in the post-Brexit shake-up of government.
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6 July 2016

Tough penalities and better data control – Caldicott

Dame Fiona Caldicott's latest review of information governance and data security in the NHS is out; recommending a stronger focus
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20 January 2016

Special report: Data and analysis for commissioning

Central initiatives are driving the use of data and analysis in healthcare. But it is using data to find patients
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14 January 2016

Prescribing tool opens up GP data

A new online tool allows people to quickly analyse and respond to the huge GP prescribing datasets released monthly by
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4 January 2016

PAC slams GPES failures

Whitehall is continuing to fail to learn from IT disasters, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report that
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29 October 2015

Data to underpin inspections – CQC

The Care Quality Commission has issued a consultation suggesting it could revert to trying to spot problems using data and
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15 September 2015

The biggest winners – obesity challenge

A tool that compares obesity rates nationwide was among the winners of a UK/US competition to creatively use open data
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9 September 2015

CSU wins multi-million data deal

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit has agreed a multi million pound deal to provide data management
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10 February 2015

Fiddling figures a jail crime from April

NHS directors and senior staff who publish false or misleading information could face a two-year jail sentence as part of
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
9 December 2014

HSCIC reviews data releases to police

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is undertaking a review of how it provides non-clinical information to law enforcement
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