HSCIC confident in care.data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is confident that its current communications plans for care.data will be passed by the UK’s data guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott.
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Open source ‘super CIC’ created
NHS England has set up a ‘super CIC’ to act as a centre of excellence and attract funding for open source projects within health and social care.
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Tom’s digital health disruptors: mental health apps
In the second of his new columns, Digital Health News reporter Thomas Meek asks why mental health has seen as explosion of apps; and what needs to be done to get them into clinical and patient use.
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Capita wins £400m PCS contract
Capita is the preferred bidder for a £400 million contract to deliver administrative support services for primary care services in England.
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NHS works with SMEs
A group of healthcare and digital experts are working together to help break down barriers between NHS organisations and small technology companies.
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Full records access promised for 2018
Patients will have real-time access to their full digital health record by 2018, under new plans unveiled by NHS England.
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E-Referral Service stabilised – then not
The new NHS e-Referral Service was running well on Tuesday afternoon, but has subsequently suffered another day of problems.
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Users unable to access E-Referrals
GPs and NHS trusts are unable to access the new NHS e-Referral Service just hours after it was launched, due to “technical difficulties”.
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West Midlands CCGs axe 111 procurement
Sixteen clinical commissioning groups in the West Midlands have abandoned their procurement of an NHS 111 service after failing to attract an acceptable bid.
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Care.data re-launched this month
One of the four care.data pathfinders will start contacting patients about the re-launch of the controversial scheme later this month.
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