SystmOne pilots discharge summaries
Primary care IT supplier TPP has begun to pilot electronic discharge summaries between a GP practice and hospital in north Yorkshire. The East Parade Surgery in Harrogate is linking up with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and receiving electronic discharge summaries directly into SystmOne. NHS North Yorkshire and York said the practice has already started […]
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Shake up in Informatics Planning
Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to plan and deliver the IT needed to do it. Informatics Planning 2009-10, a document published alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, further shifts attention from the National Programme for IT in […]
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Informatics Planning Guidance for primary care
Local health communities must fix a two-year timeline for the full roll-out of the NHS Summary Care Record and move to National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions for community services, the government has said. Informatics Planning Guidance issued today alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10 makes it clear that […]
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Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi
NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11, when the health service’s three year settlement comes to an end. The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, announced by the Department of Health yesterday but only released onto its website this morning, […]
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IT underpins NHS reform in Queen’s speech
The government is planning to introduce a health bill to Parliament that will require further investment in IT and new information services for the public, the Queen’s speech has confirmed. The National Health Service Reform Bill will give the NHS its first, ever written constitution, drive forward the government’s quality and choice agendas, and strengthen […]
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Left to their own devices?
An E-Health Insider survey has revealed a mixed picture on mobile device security. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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Survey reveals mixed picture on device security
NHS organisations have tightened up on mobile device security in response to the recent spate of data breaches from the public sector.
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Cayton stakes claim to independence of NIGB
The new chair of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care has criticised plans to make it easier for researchers to access patient information. According to the Guardian, Harry Cayton has described plans to give researchers access to patient information to recruit for medical trials as “ethically unacceptable.” The proposals are included in […]
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Harry Cayton to chair new patient data body
Harry Cayton OBE Harry Cayton OBE is to chair the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB), which becomes a statutory body later this month. Cayton was formerly the Chair of the Care Record Development Board (CRDB) – the predecessor of the NIGB – and chaired a ministerial task force on […]
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Nicholson highlights GP data risks
The Information Commissioner has identified GPs as a data security risk, according to David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS. Nicholson has written to NHS chief executives, asking them to check that their organisations are encrypting removable data and re-emphasising that information risk management should be high on their agendas. In the letter, Nicholson also […]
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