All Care.data articles – Page 5
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catch Up: Trusts on track with financial plans, and Stafford faces new challenges
Your essential update on the week in health
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NewsExclusive: Successor to Care.data awaits government sign-off
New digital services platform follows abandoned Care.data project It will be built with scale and flexibility to “take in all available GP data” Personal data flowing out of GP surgeries will have to be adequately anonymised for patients who wish to opt-out Care.data “set back” data sharing arrangements in ...
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Expert BriefingHSJ Catch Up: Junior doctors reject contract, and Care.data scrapped
Your essential update on the week in health
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NewsGovernment advised to keep tight controls on CCG data access
HSJ understands Caldicott will recommend patients should be allowed to opt out of their identifiable data being used by commissioners – apart from for validating invoices and other limited circumstances It will call on ministers to “consider” the Care.data programme It will set out options for how to allow ...
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NewsUp to 1.5m opt out of Care.data, new data suggests
HSCIC publishes fresh data on people opting out of Care.data Data reveals wide variety in opt out rates across country Campaigners say it is further evidence of botched Care.data rollout Up to 1.5 million people have registered to opt out of the controversial Care.data programme, requesting their records ...
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NewsNHS warned it is not taking hacking threat seriously enough
There is a lack of understanding about cyber security at board level, Kingsley Manning warns Cyber attacks are “a fundamental threat to the operations of hospitals” System overall is “well ahead of the game” NHS organisations are not taking the threat of cyber attacks seriously enough, the Health ...
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NewsExclusive: Departing boss blames leadership for tech woes
Outgoing information centre chair reveals frustrations Criticises the impact of Tim Kelsey, former NHS England tech leader New NHS England technology officer will add to “multi-headed hydra” of decision makers Says HSCIC has been transformed from “weak link to a fundamental asset” Muddled leadership, competing agendas and a ...
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NewsCaldicott: 'Considerable' public support for data sharing
There is “considerable” public support for sharing anonymised health data with third parties, according to the unpublished findings of national data guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott.
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NewsRevealed: Where the £200m national transformation fund was spent
NHS England has for the first time released comprehensive details of how its £200m transformation fund for 2015-16 was allocated to vanguards, and spent by national teams.
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CommentNo more white knights please
NHS England needs a chief clinical information officer for the successful application of digital technology and implementation of the forward view. By Ewan Davis
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NewsExclusive: Tim Kelsey to leave NHS England
Tim Kelsey, one of NHS England’s most high profile board members, is leaving the organisation to take a new job in Australia.
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SupplementsSupplement: The NHS needs the complete data picture
Collaborative commissioning can help
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CommentKelsey: Urgent action on a digital NHS is a moral imperative
The online revolution hasn’t reached the NHS
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NewsCare.data opt out ignored by commissioners, campaigners claim
Patients who opted out from having their GP records shared as part of the Care.data programme have been ignored by commissioners behind a pilot scheme in Southend, privacy campaigners have claimed.
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NewsNHS England hits back at highly critical Care.data report
NHS England has hit back the assertion by an independent watchdog that delivery of the controversial Care.data patient record sharing initiative has been dogged by ‘unresolvable problems’.
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CommentMake people the controllers of their data to help the NHS go digital
Integrating personal and NHS health records
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NewsCare.data to restart this month
The controversial Care.data project is set to restart later this month. Information and opt out forms are due to be sent out to patients in one of the pilot areas.
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CommentWe need to win the PR battle on sharing patient data
Data sharing will unlock pressure mysteries