Care.data delayed by two years
Final approval for the ‘pathfinder’ stage of the controversial care.data programme to go ahead will not be given until early next year.
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HSCIC warns of HES confidentiality
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has asked a “significant” number of trusts to delete data containing Hospital Episode Statistics returns that could breach patient confidentiality.
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HSCIC review finds data release ‘lapses’
A Health and Social Care Information Centre review has uncovered “lapses” in how its predecessor organisation shared patient data, and set out measures to try and make sure they won’t recur.
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HSCIC reviews HES access
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is reviewing access to the Hospital Episode Statistics and other national datasets.
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HSCIC admits to four HES data breaches
The Health and Social Care Information centre has admitted to repeated data breaches involving the Hospital Episode Statistics.
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Kelsey admits care.data use unclear
NHS England delayed the care.data programme because it could not give guarantees on how the data would be used, NHS England’s director of patients and information has said.
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HES data handled in Google cloud
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has spent another day fire-fighting concerns about care.data, following reports that different companies had uploaded Hospital Episode Statistics to Google and made HES data publically available.
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HES consultation attracts 164 responses
A consultation on plans to greatly expand the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset and make it available for electronic extraction attracted 164 responses.
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£1m national leaflet drop on care.data
The government will spend £1m sending a patient information leaflet about the controversial care.data programme to every household in England.
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BJSS re-engineers HES platform
BJSS has re-engineered the data platform supporting Hospital Episode Statistics, reducing the data processing time from 20 days to five.
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