9 December 2008

Keogh promotes use of the NHS Number

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has written to all NHS chief executives and medical directors to promote wider use of the
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8 December 2008

Journalists warned of possible ECS breach

Seven BBC journalists have been told that information held on their Emergency Care Summary in Scotland may have been inappropriately
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8 December 2008

DH publishes EPS release two statutory directions

The Department of Health has published statutory directions for release two of the Electronic Prescription Service, which it hopes will
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5 December 2008

TPP reaches 10m patients and plans more

Primary care system supplier TPP has announced that more than ten million patients in England and Wales now have records
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3 December 2008

Choice figures stick again

The percentage of people who recall being offered a choice of hospital remains at just one under in two patients,
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2 December 2008

PRIMIS+ moves to NHS Information Centre

Responsibility for the data quality organisation PRIMIS+ is to move from NHS Connecting for Health to the NHS Information Centre
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2 December 2008

Choose and Book slot availability improves

Problems with slot availability on Choose and Book are beginning to fall, with availability issues affecting between 12% and 13%
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1 December 2008

Information Centre checks GP Choices details

The NHS Information Centre is contacting every GP practice in England to check the accuracy of data held about them
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1 December 2008

Consent to view to get first test

Five GP practices in South West Essex are to become the first GPs in the country to implement the new
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27 November 2008

Lib Dems demand tougher data protection

The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Department of Health to publish minimum standards for the protection of data on
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