Off the record
A group of well-known privacy campaigners have the GP Extraction Service in their sights. Lis Evenstad reports from the launch of medConfidential.
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Privacy watchdogs back biting NHS
Well-known privacy campaigners have launched a new initiative to try and stop NHS England’s GP Extraction Service in its tracks.
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Hunt pledges to respect patient data
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he will honour patient opt-outs if they do not want their personal, confidential informaton to be shared.
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HSCIC creates quality indicator library
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is creating a library and repository for quality indicators to reduce duplication and improve standards.
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Just 61 practices offer records access
Just 61 GP practices in England are offering patients full online access to their patient records.
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Kelsey hails breakthrough for care.data
Tim Kelsey, the national director of patients and information, has claimed a breakthrough in linking-up data flows between secondary and primary care.
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Standards Board splits in two
The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care is being replaced by two new organisations.
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Care.data approved
The care.data programme to extract and link large amounts of primary and secondary data has been approved by an Independent Advisory Group.
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EHI interview: Ming Tang
Rebecca Todd talks to NHS England’s director of data and information management systems, who will be speaking at EHI Information for Commissioning on 15 May.
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GPES on track
GP system suppliers are on track to implement the General Practice Extraction Service from this month.
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