Information governance

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28 October 2009

Trust loses cancer patient data

Ashford and St Peterā€™s Hospitals NHS Trust has been criticised by the Information Commissioner for losing three unencrypted USB sticks
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23 October 2009

NIGB launches social care guarantee

The National Information Governance Board has launched its Social Care Record Guarantee, setting out patients’ rights on confidentiality and consent
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15 October 2009

Access code

Dr Maureen Baker, Caldicott Guardian for NHS Connecting for Health, outlines new guidance on the use of the Personal Demographics
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15 October 2009

Blackpool set to choose Alert

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust looks set to partner with Alert Life Sciences to supply its new
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13 October 2009

SCR data accreditation ‘to be dropped’

NHS Connecting for Health looks likely to drop the requirement for GP practice data to be accredited before Summary Care Records
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22 September 2009

Data quality held to quality account

The Department of Health wants NHS organisations to publish details of their data quality as part of its plans for
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4 August 2009

Call for phase two CAF demonstrators

The Department of Health is looking for a wider range of IT systems to take part in demonstrator sites for
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15 July 2009

Five trusts breach DPA

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued further warnings to NHS bodies about the importance of protecting data, after revealing that
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9 July 2009

Caring, sharing

Individual hospitals have PACS in place: but whatever happened to image sharing? Linda Davidson and Daloni Carlisle investigate.
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2 July 2009

Blackpool uses ASCC for EPR procurement

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has begun a procurement process for elements of an electronic patient record
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