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30 June 2023

Report says government must address failures in digital transformation

The government needs to address previous failures in its digital transformation plans for the health service, a parliamentary committee report
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17 February 2023

Government progress on digitising the NHS ā€˜inadequateā€™ says Commons Expert Panel

The Government is making inadequate progress on vital commitments to digitise the NHS, an independent expert panel has found, with
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16 May 2022

Goldacre says TREs will mitigate harmful data risks and ‘earn public trust’

Professor Ben Goldacre has told the Science and Tech Committee that Trusted Research Environments (TREs) will mitigate data risks and
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6 July 2021

NHS overhaul: Health and Care Bill formally introduced to parliament

The governmentā€™s Health and Care Bill, which sets out plans to reform the NHS to deliver more joined up care,
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Jeremy Hunt
27 June 2017

NHS digitisation means mail blunder “unlikely” to occur again, Hunt tells CommonsĀ 

The shift to electronic systems will mean the blunder of 709,000 medical correspondence items not delivered is "unlikely" to occur
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7 April 2017

Health IT news in brief

Todayā€™s health IT news in brief covers the rollout of a paediatric diabetes information management system, a new accreditation for
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17 April 2014

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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3 July 2009

MPs back technology for patient safety

MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve
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5 June 2009

CfH one of ‘big three’ users of consultants

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has identified NHS Connecting for Health as one of the big three users of management
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12 May 2009

Interim flu line plans unveiled

The Department of Health is drawing up plans for an interim flu line after admitting that its National Flu Line
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