Information Centre Archives

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

20 December 2010

SUS boosted by Operating Framework

The NHS has been told that it should be using the Secondary Uses Service as the “standard repository” for health

10 August 2010

DH reviews Dr Foster Intelligence

The future of Dr Foster Intelligence, the UK’s best known provider of hospital performance information and analysis, is under review

26 July 2010

Information Centre wins in ALB review

The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health’s arms length body review with a promise that

13 July 2010

Lansley leads information revolution

The new NHS white paper promises an information strategy for the NHS this autumn, but a report from the National

3 June 2010

Data published as Whitehall is reviewed

The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts

24 February 2010

Mid Staffs report demands stats overhaul

An independent report into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has called for an “impeccably independent and transparent

13 January 2010

IMS Health wins IC indicators contract

US-based healthcare intelligence company IMS Health has been chosen to produce clinical indicators for the NHS Choices website, taking over

30 November 2009

Dr Foster names safety underperformers

The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient

2 November 2009

Mind the gap

Brian Derry from the NHS Information Centre reflects on the coming financial crunch and how informatics can help the NHS