Data

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17 March 2009

MPs demand action on health inequalities

Better data to inform resource allocation and more evaluation of government policies are needed to tackle the widening gap in
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13 March 2009

NHSBT secures portable media

NHS Blood and Transplant is rolling out a project to protect data on laptops, PCs, USB sticks and other portable
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12 March 2009

Doc ratings site moves into charity work

The controversial website iwantgreatcare, which allows patients to rate their doctors, is expanding into other areas of NHS work, in
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10 March 2009

Trust incident reports published

The National Patient Safety Agency has started to publish patient safety incident reports from every NHS trust and local health
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9 March 2009

Data sharing clause 152 dropped

The government has dropped its controversial plans to make it easier to share personal data across Whitehall departments. Justice Secretary
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9 March 2009

Dumfries and Galloway secures USB sticks

NHS Dumfries and Galloway has held a USB stick amnesty for staff and issued 1,100 SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise USB flash
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6 March 2009

Northgate Demand Manager

Northgate Public Services has launched a web-based demand management system to support world class commissioning. Demand Manager is aimed at
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5 March 2009

Teenage clicks

At last year’s BT e-Health Insider awards, NHS Choices won the best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement
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5 March 2009

NPSA Never Events policy welcomed

A company making IT systems to prevent wrong-site surgery has welcomed the launch of a national patient safety policy focusing
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4 March 2009

Sheffield puts records on bedside terminals

An NHS trust in Sheffield its using its bedside entertainment system to give doctors and other medical staff access to
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