Patient data

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22 September 2015

Care.data delayed by two years

Final approval for the ‘pathfinder’ stage of the controversial care.data programme to go ahead will not be given until early
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2 July 2015

Over-budget GPES has no future – NAO

Significant delays to the General Practice Extraction Service have seen costs rise from £14 million to £40 million - and
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15 June 2015

Call to improve mHealth data protection

Greater efforts must be made to protect patient data collected by mobile devices, according to Europe’s data guardian.
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12 May 2015

Delay to 700,000 patient opt-outs

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is “extremely concerned” that 700,000 patient objections to having their identifiable data shared
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20 March 2015

Cerner to integrate PHR data in records

Cerner has partnered with digital health platform Validic in a deal to integrate patient-generated data into its patient portals and
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Information Commissioner's Office
19 June 2014

Leaked ICO audit reveals data breach

A private medical company’s data breaches may have involved the personal information of up to 10,000 patients, according to an
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
22 October 2013

SCR opt-out does not apply to care.data

Care.data information leaflets being sent to households in January will tell patients that an opt-out of the Summary Care Record
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20 August 2013

First sign-off for patient data flow

NHS South London Commissioning Support Unit is the first to have its Data Service for Commissioners infrastructure signed off, allowing
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15 May 2013

CSU staff seconded to info centre

Around 180 commissioning support unit staff have been seconded into the Health and Social Care Information Centre to deliver the
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2 November 2012

ResearchOne gets ethical approval

TPP’s new patient database has received ethical approval from the NHS Research Ethics Committee and the National Information Governance Board.
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