Database

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21 April 2009

Audit Scotland flags concerns with ECR

Scotland’s national audit body has raised concerns about the scope and quality of the country’s Emergency Care Summary. In its latest report
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7 April 2009

Summary care record is indelible

Patients who do not opt-out of the Summary Care Record prior to one being created for them will not be
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27 March 2009

Work stops again on ContactPoint

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been suspended after local authority staff discovered loopholes in the system
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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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18 March 2009

Diabetes predictor based on QResearch

A simple new score that could help to identify those at most risk of developing type 2 diabetes has been
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17 March 2009

Laming – review IT for children’s services

The government must look at rolling out a single national IT system for children’s services because local IT systems are
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12 March 2009

Doc ratings site moves into charity work

The controversial website iwantgreatcare, which allows patients to rate their doctors, is expanding into other areas of NHS work, in
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12 March 2009

Half of PCT-practice agreements signed

More than 50% of GP practices have now signed their PCT-practice agreement for GP Systems of Choice. Just under 4,000
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9 February 2009

New QRISK2 for heart disease launched

A new version of the QRISK software which identifies patients most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been
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