Find your NHS Number online service used 4.6million times in first year
The online Find your NHS Number service which enables people to search for their NHS number was used 4.6million times in its first year.
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Individual Patient Identifier live in Ireland
Every patient in Ireland has been assigned unique identifying number, in an effort to improve patient safety and data quality.
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Ireland consults public on identifier
Ireland’s Health Service Executive has launched a public consultation on the privacy implications of creating a unique health identifier, similar to the NHS Number.
Interoperability

Wales adopts NHS Number
NHS Wales has adopted the NHS Number as the official patient identifier for all of its IT systems.
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Ireland races to implement health IT
Ireland has created an Individual Health Identifier for all patients and implemented an e-referral system in half of all its hospitals, over the past six months
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NHS Number use becomes law
The NHS Number must be used as a single patient identifier across the health and social care system, under a new law which comes into effect today.
Interoperability

Joe’s view: of identity
Joe McDonald is forever coming across new ways to prove his identity and thinks it is about time that the NHS got into the same business.
CCIO Network

NHS identifier bill passes Lords
A bill to mandate the use of a common patient identifier across the health and social care system is set to become law after passing its final reading in the House of Lords.
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Lords to examine NHS identity bill
A bill proposing to mandate the use of a common patient identifier across the health and social care system will be discussed in the House of Lords tomorrow.
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Southampton improves NHS Number tracing
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is using the InterSystems HealthShare Spine Mini Service Provider to accelerate NHS Number tracing and improve the quality of patient data.
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