All NHS Digital (HSCIC) articles – Page 21
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NewsConsultancy giant awarded £60m NHS email contract
Consultancy firm Accenture has been awarded a £60m contract to deliver a replacement for the health service’s secure email system by the Department of Health.
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NewsNHS England: Digital plans 'could save £10bn'
Plans to roll out the use of digital technology in the health service could result in efficiency savings up to £10bn by 2020, work conducted for NHS England has estimated.
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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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NewsCall for more surgeons as hip and knee operations rise
A shortage of training places for orthopaedic surgeons must be addressed as demand for hip and knee replacement surgery continues to rise, the Royal College of Surgeons has said.
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NewsExclusive: Digital pioneer bids to integrate NHS patient records for free
One of the NHS technology community’s leading experts is building a new system to integrate the health service’s myriad patient record systems, and he plans to give it to the NHS for free.
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NewsSUS data collection to be suspended
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will suspend the collection of the secondary uses service data for nearly two weeks as part of a process to bring collection of the vital NHS dataset in-house.
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NewsSenior figures from three main parties back greater role for HWBs
Senior figures from the three main political parties have backed health and wellbeing boards as the main commissioners of integrated health and social care.
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NewsNumber of NHS nursing staff hits record levels
The numbers of qualified nursing staff recruited by the NHS in England has reached record levels, with numbers increasing by more than 3,000 in a single month.
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NewsCare.data suffers new set back
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has pledged to contact a potentially large number of patients who objected to the Care.data programme, after it emerged that their opt-outs could unintentionally exclude them from NHS services such as bowel screening.
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NewsHunt calls for more nurses in community services
The health secretary has called for a significant increase in community and primary care nursing posts as part of the drive to boost services outside of hospitals
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NewsCCGs poised to defy pharma by switching to cheaper, unlicensed drug
Clinical commissioning groups across England are mulling the use of an unlicensed drug which could save the NHS millions of pounds, HSJ has learned
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NewsSenior information centre official to depart
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s director of information and analytics is leaving the organisation, HSJ has learned.
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NewsKelsey: Digital ambition will need carrots as well as sticks
NHS England’s information director has acknowledged trusts will need ‘incentives’ as well as ‘consequences’ to encourage them to hit new national standards for information technology
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NewsTim Kelsey reveals ‘NHS app store’ plan
The NHS is set to make a fresh push to encourage GPs to prescribe the use of apps and other digital tools in a key strategy document next week
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NewsHospital nursing posts dip for second month in a row
The numbers of nursing staff employed in NHS hospitals has dipped for the second month in a row for the first time since the start of the “Francis effect” on nurse recruitment
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NewsPatient data sharing pilot CCGs unveiled
NHS England has chosen six clinical commissioning groups for the next phase of its controversial Care.data patient record sharing initiative.
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News'Francis effect' stalls as nurse numbers fall
The rapid increase in registered nurses employed in the NHS has stopped, with numbers now falling for the first time this year
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NewsNHS hospital comparison website launched
A new website to enable patients and staff to compare hospitals across a broad range of metrics from accident and emergency waiting times to the quality of meals will be launched tomorrow.
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NewsNHS core IT system migration a ‘success’
The health service’s central ‘IT spine’ has migrated onto a new system in a move senior figures hope will improve the integration of data and information systems in the NHS and social services.