PDS

Archive
13 August 2009

In defence of the Spine

Ewan Davis surprises himself by setting out the case in defence of the NHS Spine. He argues that if we
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14 July 2009

GP raises concern about PDS security

Renewed concerns have been raised about the security of the Personal Demographics Service after a GP was able to access
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3 April 2009

GP2GP hits half a million transfers

More than 500,000 electronic patient records have now been transferred between GP practices using GP2GP software, NHS Connecting for Health
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5 January 2009

New demographics services for Wales

Informing Healthcare is to roll-out its own demographics services from this month after sharing systems with England for more than
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17 December 2008

Pharmacists get access to PDS for EPS R2

Community pharmacists are to be issued with new smartcards to give them access to the Personal Demographics Service. NHS Connecting
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18 November 2008

IT costs factored into organ donor decision

The UK Organ Donation Taskforce this week came out against moving to a system of presumed consent for organ donation,
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2 June 2008

Spine problems force trusts to switch off CRS

Trusts across England were forced to switch off their connection to the Personal Demographics Service, after a weekend upgrade led
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6 November 2007

GP claims PDS increases information theft

The practice of extracting confidential patient information from GP practice staff has become much more frequent since the introduction of
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1 August 2007

CfH awards BT contract to replace NSTS

A new service developed by BT, called the Demographics Batch Service (DBS) is set to replace the NHS Strategic Tracing
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17 July 2007

It’s all about access

David Baker, MD of Clinical Solutions, tells Jon Hoeksma, that his company's strategy is based on providing the means to
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