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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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4 December 2006

Fresh guidance issued on PBC data requirements

Fresh guidance on practice-based commissioning sets out the minimum data requirements that primary care trusts (PCTs) are expected to provide
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4 December 2006

Information Centre to centralise social care records

The Information Centre is working towards producing a new information system for adult social care records, called the Adult Social
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1 December 2006

Anger at CMO’s request to forward opt-out coupons

England’s chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has written to all GPs asking them to forward to the Department of
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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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15 November 2006

DH carrying out ‘confidential’ review of CfH

E-Health Insider has learned that an urgent ‘confidential’ review of the NHS IT programme and structure of Connecting for Health,
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14 November 2006

Wales starts summary record project

Out of hours clinicians in Gwent are to have access to an emergency summary care record in a project which
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14 November 2006

DH survey reveals choice recall of just 30%

Only 30% of patients can recall being offered a choice of hospital for their outpatient appointments, according to figures from
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7 November 2006

Mental health ‘choice’ website launched

A new website has been launched to provide online support to patients with mental health problems, in line with the
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6 November 2006

Online training for telecare workers launched

A new web-based learning resource has been set up by software developers Tunstall to educate healthcare professionals on what to
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