Dept of Health

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26 March 2009

Database mooted for healthcare professionals

The Department of Health is to investigate whether a national database should be set up to hold information on the
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23 March 2009

Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database

A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal
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20 March 2009

NICE to take charge of QoF

The Department of Health has announced that it is to go ahead with its plans to put the National Institute
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19 March 2009

IT vital to pharmacy progress

Use of the NHS Care Records Service by community pharmacists will be an essential part of the reform agenda for
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17 March 2009

QoF should tackle health inequalities – MPs

The Quality and Outcomes Framework needs radical revision to fully take account of health inequalities, according to MPs. A report
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12 March 2009

Planning for pandemic flu

Clinical Solutions is helping to lay the foundations for coping with an outbreak of pandemic flu. Sarah Bruce reports.
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9 March 2009

NHS Brent gets PBC support

The first project under the Department of Health’s practice-based commissioning support framework has begun work. Clinicians and managers in NHS
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5 March 2009

Insider view: Jon Hoeksma

A shake-up at the top of NHS IT will see power shift from NHS Connecting for Health to Whitehall, says
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5 March 2009

CfH stripped of key roles and reorganised

In a major shake-up of health service IT, key leadership roles are to be moved directly to the Department of
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5 March 2009

DH launches new vision for PBC

Practice-based commissioners are entitled to receive accurate and timely financial and management data and analysis, according to the Department of
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