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ICO fines second trust but faces appeal

The second NHS organisation to be fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office for breaching the Data Protection Act has said
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Buckman attacks reforms and email plans

The British Medical Association’s GP leader has launched a blistering attack on the new Health and Social Care Act, saying
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Power plays

GPs and GP system suppliers have given a luke-warm reaction to the NHS information strategy. Rebecca Todd reports.
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Four TPP practices pilot records access

Four TPP practices are piloting a scheme to provide patients with access to their health records online; but the company’s
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Fate of NPfIT funds “complicated”

In an exclusive interview with eHealth Insider, health minister Earl Howe hinted that capital funding will be available for NHS
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Ten years to digital first NHS: Earl Howe

Health minister, the Earl Howe, tells EHI editor Jon Hoeksma that the NHS needs to become ‘digital first’ and the
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New NHS information strategy unveiled

The new NHS information strategy urges health and social care services to make full use of online technologies to put
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Patient access to GP records by 2015

Providing patients access to their online records by 2015 is one of the few specific commitments in the government’s newly
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Info strategy calls for CCIOs on boards

The new NHS information strategy says that every health care organisation needs to appoint a ‘board-level’ CCIO, or equivalent senior
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Kids order meals on Toughbooks

Birmingham Children’s Hospital has implemented a new food ordering and management system, which will collect and process patient meal orders
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