London trusts on track for PACS exit
London trusts are exiting their national digital imaging contracts on schedule, a bulletin from the Health and Social Care Information Centre has suggested.
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Enter the CCG – an open letter to the DH
Dr John Lockley uses his regular column to pen an open letter to the Department of Health, calling for a fundamental re-think of the increasingly vexed rules about the use of personal confidential data in the NHS.
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HSCIC data lab details in November
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will release more information in November about its plans for a secure data lab for viewing patient data, its chief executive Andy Williams has said.
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Dr Joanne Bailey to chair GPES group
Dr Joanne Bailey has been chosen to chair the GP Extraction Service Independent Advisory Group, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has announced.
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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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Scale of data release to police revealed
More than 2,700 releases of non-clinical information about NHS patients were made to law enforcement organisations in the year to March 2014, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has revealed.
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DH issues guidance on ‘safe havens’
The Department of Health has issued guidance on the creation of patient data ‘safe havens’ that will govern access to confidential data held by Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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ASH consultation out ‘soon’
New regulations on how patient identifiable data can be provided to commissioners should be in place by the end of 2014, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre have said.
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NHS must earn trust on data – Manning
The NHS needs to earn back the trust of patients in the way that it handles data, the chair of the HSCIC has said in a speech that also promised action on ‘accredited safe havens’ for commissioning data shortly.
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BMA votes for care.data opt-in
The British Medical Association has voted in favour of making care.data an opt-in system rather than an opt-out one, following a short but passionate debate at its Annual Representative Meeting.
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