BJSS wins e-referrals contract
BJSS has won the contract to develop a new NHS e-referrals service due to go live late next year.
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Child protection database live in 2015
Children identified as vulnerable by social services will be flagged to NHS staff if they attend an A&E, starting in 2015.
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Joe’s view of pushing rocks
As chair of the CCIO Leaders Network, Joe McDonald is getting a lot of calls for clinical engagement on national projects. A better way is needed, grounded in a national clinical engagement strategy.
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‘Safe haven’ accreditation held up
The creation of ‘accredited safe havens’ to allow commissioners to process some patient confidential data is being held up by the wait for the government’s response to Caldicott2.
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UKCHIP refresh to drive up standards
The UK Council for Health Informatics Professions, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre are working together to drive up standards and professionalism amongst health informatics staff.
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IT experts question HES expansion plans
NHS IT directors have questioned whether most hospitals can get the IT in place to allow a hugely expanded HES dataset to be extracted by April 2014.
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Bureaucracy busters set to work on NHS
A bureaucracy busting campaign is being launched to reduce the burden of data collection for the NHS.
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EHI interview: Dr Mark Davies
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is thinking about how best to fulfil its remit of being the focal point for collecting and publishing data, its clinical and public assurance director tells Rebecca Todd.
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GP group does care.data campaign
The Emis National User Group has created an alternative information campaign for practices to advertise the controversial GP extract programme care.data.
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Councils get £11.8m for data collection
Councils will get an extra £11.8m of funding to support the move to a new social care data collection system, due to be phased in over coming years.
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