Dear NPfIT…
Respondents to the recent Medix survey added comments to their answers. Linda Davidson sifted their views.
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Overseas data work under review, say reports
The government is reportedly reviewing whether sensitive information about NHS patients could be sent overseas for processing. A leaked internal NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) document, published by Computer Weekly magazine, reveals a review is under way into whether patient data could be processed by “approved organisations” abroad. The DH said in a statement on […]
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Single info governance board plans unveiled
Full details of the cost and role of the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care were published this week following the introduction of the Health and Social Care Bill to the House of Commons. The bill confirms that the new board will have responsibility for the NHS Care Record Guarantee for […]
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New information governance board announced
Members of the new National Information Governance Board for health and social care in England, the body who will be responsible for ownership of the Care Record Guarantee have been named by the Department of Health Chair of Connecting for Health’s Care Record Development Board (CRDB), Harry Cayton will continue as the new chair of […]
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CRS delayed MRSA patients being isolated
Problems with the Care Records System installed at Buckingham Hospitals NHS Trust resulted in delays to potentially infectious patients with MRSA not being isolated. The problem arose as after the new system was turned on historic infection control alerts then had to be manually entered onto the system in the six weeks following go-live The […]
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RCP launches generic record-keeping standards
New standards for generic medical reporting have been developed by the Royal College of Physicians health informatics unit (HIU) and supported by NHS Connecting for Health. The college says that the purpose of the standards is to maximise patient safety and quality of care, support professional best practice and assist compliance with information governance and NHS […]
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IT and data quality incentive for Scottish GPs
Scottish GP practices will be able to earn an average of £3,800 over the next six months from an IT and data quality incentive scheme. The newly agreed directed enhanced service (DES) on benching information governance and data quality is to run from October to the end of March 2008. The one-off DES is being […]
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Call for electronic consent for secondary uses
Consent to use patient records for secondary uses should be recorded using electronic mechanisms integrated with core NHS systems, the Working Group on the Secondary Uses of Patient Information has recommended. The group, established to consider the issues around uses of patient-identifiable data for purposes other than direct patient care, said: “Consideration should be given […]
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Everything you know is wrong
In a personal account of implementing NPfIT systems, Jeff Jacklin, former head of IT at Milton Keynes hospital explains the first lesson of working with NPfIT: forget everything you’ve learnt to date.
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Concern about USB sticks used for handovers
The security of data stored on USB sticks has been called into question following the theft of a stick containing unprotected confidential patient details at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. Around a third of junior doctors currently use universal serial bus (USB) sticks as a means of saving and storing patient data, to pass on […]
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