Concern over encryption for practice-owned IT
GP representatives are concerned that GP practices that have bought their own desktops and mobile devices may miss out on encryption software bought for the NHS. Earlier this year, NHS Connecting for Health announced a deal with security software specialist McAfee to supply 700,000 licences for data encryption software to the NHS. This was part […]
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Independent CIOs round table report
Download the full report for free Independent sector providers need to position themselves to actively anticipate and influence future NHS technical developments and information governance arrangements rather than wait for decisions to be made without their input, leaders agreed at a round table discussion. The round table, facilitated by E-Health Insider and sponsored by IMS […]
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SCR consent model changes
The NHS Care Records Board will today confirm that patients will be asked for permission to share their record at each clinical encounter. In a much-anticipated move, the board has acted on the recommendations of the May 2008 UCL report on the first primary care trusts to adopt the Summary Care Record. Patients will still […]
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London payroll and Tees patient records lost
Four computer disks, containing more than seven years’ worth of payroll information for nearly 18,000 NHS staff in London, have been lost in the post. The disks disappeared in July after the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust’s payroll department sent them to McKesson, which provides it with payroll IT services. The disks were sent via the […]
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GP locums struggle to get smartcards
GP locums are working without NHS Connecting for Health smartcards because of problems in obtaining them, the British Medical Association has claimed. The sessional GP sub-committee of the BMA’s General Practitioner Committee claims primary care trusts are variable in providing smartcards for locums and that they face difficulties providing cards for locums who work between many different practices and […]
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Tough at the top
Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy will have plenty on their desks when they take over the top jobs in NHS IT in mid September. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Act paves way for NIGB
The National Information Governance Board is to become a statutory body, replacing the Patient Information Advisory Group, following Royal Assent for the Health and Social Care Act 2008. Although the NIGB was formed in October last year, it was only an interim board. The PIAG was the statutory body until the Act became law. Now […]
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review
The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.
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DH group to look at wider NHS CRS access
The Department of Health has convened a group to look at widening access to the NHS Care Records Service including representatives from patients, nurses and pharmacists, according to Prof Michael Thick, Connecting for Health’s chief clinical officer. Prof Thick told last week’s Pharmaceutical Journal that the representative group was made up of various parties with […]
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NHS informatics review set to stress continuity
As part of the next stage review of the health service will see the publication of the blueprint for NHS informatics, to accompany last week’s ten year blueprint for the health service ‘High Quality Care for All: The NHS Next Stage Review’. The accompanying informatics review matters as the Darzi direction of travel is all […]
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