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1 April 2013

NHS reorganisation finally takes effect

The biggest changes to the NHS in two decades come into effect today, and are likely to have a major
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28 March 2013

All change, please

At midnight, the latest reorganisation of the NHS finally took effect. Lyn Whitfield outlines the changes and their impact on
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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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20 February 2013

Care.data extract needs explanation

A request to take a massive new data extract from GP practices can proceed, but a clear explanation is first
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18 February 2013

Info centre to run DMICs

New Data Management Integration Centres, being developed within the NHS Commissioning Board, will have to become part of the Health
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13 February 2013

Info centre chair sought

The government wants to recruit someone with a “deep understanding of the transformative power of information and data” to be
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30 January 2013

Mental health data goes monthly

England’s biggest mental health dataset will be released monthly from this summer.
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25 January 2013

Poor performers highlighted

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has released a new analysis of hospital mortality rates, identifying NHS trusts that
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
24 January 2013

GPs can refuse data extract

GPs will decide whether a massive new dataset can be regularly extracted from their practices.
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16 January 2013

‘Grave concerns’ over new GP dataset

GPs and privacy experts have “grave concerns” about an extensive new dataset to be extracted from GP practices.
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