Information Commissioner's Office
28 March 2013

ICO wants compulsory audits of NHS

The government is looking to make the NHS subject to compulsory data protection audits by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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28 March 2013

Massive disparities in GP IT spend

Expenditure on GP IT varies enormously nationwide from between just 50p per head of population in Wiltshire to nearly £10
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27 March 2013

Ten suppliers on £300m framework

Ten suppliers are on a new framework worth up to £300m to supply clinical information systems to 30 community and
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27 March 2013

Care.data IG reconsidered

A new information governance assessment of the massive care.data GP extract is being presented to an Independent Advisory Group meeting
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26 March 2013

Torbay halts integrated record project

Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust has paused its "pioneering" shared community record project while it reassesses
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26 March 2013

NHS Pathways data in new dashboard

NHS Pathways has developed a dashboard tool to help commissioners track clinical demand in real-time.
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25 March 2013

PatientsLikeMe wants to work with NHS

The founder of US patient network PatientsLikeMe wants to pilot his site’s technology in the NHS.
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22 March 2013

NHS 111 in ‘total meltdown’

The Manchester NHS 111 service went into “total meltdown” on its first night and the BMA’s General Practitioners’ Committee has
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22 March 2013

N3 gets PSN certified

The N3 broadband service, provided by BT, has been certified as a Public Services Network.
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22 March 2013

Scotland gets Patient Opinions

Scotland is rolling out Patient Opinion to all of its health boards to allow patients to share their experiences of
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