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5 December 2006

Heartlands uses RFID for patient identification

The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Safe Surgery Systems Ltd a contract to supply a Radio Frequency
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4 December 2006

DH rejects patient opt-out requests

The Department of Health has rejected patients’ requests to stop their information being uploaded to the NHS data spine. On
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21 November 2006

GPs threaten to block national patient database

One in two GPs have signalled their intention not to upload patients’ clinical details to the NHS Care Records Service
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2 November 2006

Scotland mandates online patient data dictionary

A new clinical standards dictionary has been set up by NHS Scotland’s National Clinical Dataset Development Programme in an effort
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31 October 2006

Apollo patient data mining software may breach DPA

A primary care IM&T adviser has recommended that GP practices do not use Department of Health supplied software to extract
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19 October 2006

NHS Direct patient database approaches first birthday

NHS Direct, the health service’s telephone and online advice service will celebrate the first birthday of its single national database
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13 October 2006

One in five trusts below standard on patient information

One in five NHS trusts in England do not store, use and dispose of information about patients to an agreed
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18 September 2006

GP wins award for patient record access initiative

Dr Amir Hannan has been awarded this year’s John Perry prize at the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group
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14 September 2006

Electronic patient information awards announced

  Patient information publications delivered through new media such as DVDs and websites have strongly featured in the results of
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7 September 2006

New group will promote patient access to records

A group has been set up to raise awareness of patient record access nationally and internationally and increase the take-up
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