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15 October 2009

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Dr Maureen Baker, Caldicott Guardian for NHS Connecting for Health, outlines new guidance on the use of the Personal Demographics
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14 October 2009

GP ratings launched on NHS Choices

The Department of Health has launched a controversial online rating service to let patients rate and compare GP practices.
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13 October 2009

SCR data accreditation ‘to be dropped’

NHS Connecting for Health looks likely to drop the requirement for GP practice data to be accredited before Summary Care Records
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12 October 2009

Interview: Mary Hawking

Fiona Barr talks to veteran healthcare IT campaigner Dr Mary Hawking, who recently won the John Perry award.
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12 October 2009

Hammersmith and Fulham text quitters

GP practices in NHS Hammersmith and Fulham have used text messaging to collect information on patients’ smoking status and invite
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9 October 2009

ContactPoint roll out confirmed

The national roll-out of the children’s database ContactPoint is to go ahead from later this month, the government has announced.
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8 October 2009

Somerset cancer register goes national

The Somerset Health Informatics Service has developed an electronic register to help cancer patients across the country receive treatment more
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6 October 2009

Mary Hawking honoured

Mary Hawking (right) receiving the 2009 John Perry Prize from Joan Perry Dr Mary Hawking, a GP in Bedfordshire and
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5 October 2009

Survey gives boost to HealthSpace

E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk survey shows strong backing for HealthSpace and none at all for commercial alternatives.
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5 October 2009

Readers back reformed NPfIT

The National Programme should not be scrapped although it should be reformed, a major survey by E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk
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