Information governance

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16 February 2010

CQC raises discharge concerns

Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according
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5 February 2010

Trusts ‘treat IG return as box-ticking’

Too many trusts are using the Information Governance Toolkit return as a tick-box exercise rather than as a means to ensure
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27 January 2010

Pharmacists given tight IG deadlines

Community pharmacists in England have been given until the end of March to assess their compliance with NHS Connecting for
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25 January 2010

Southampton rapped by ICO

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be rapped for breaching the Data Protection Act. Chief
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19 January 2010

NIGB issues guide to changing records

The Department of Health is to drop its advice that patients unhappy with their health record must make a formal
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14 January 2010

ICO spells out £500,000 penalty plans

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued guidance on how it will use its new powers to impose penalties of up
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31 December 2009

Read all about it: 2010

Suppliers and NHS IT managers look ahead.
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22 December 2009

DH shifts IT from ‘replace’ to ‘connect’

NHS informatics in England will move from a “replace all” to “connect all” philosophy, the Department of Health has announced.
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21 December 2009

A year in the life of TPP

TPP’s co-founder Frank Hester talks to Fiona Barr about 2009 and beyond
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9 November 2009

Four in ten readers expect cuts

Four out of ten NHS IT staff are expecting their budgets to decrease next year, and a further 36% expect
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