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NHS data left lacking encryption
News NHS trusts will not have completed encrypting patients' personal data held on their computers until later this year. It means data will not be fully protected until 10 months after NHS chief executive David Nicholson asked trusts to make the... [24 Jun 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News NHS trusts are being urged to introduce independent auditors to make sure they are keeping to guidelines to protect their handling of patient data. Winfield acknowledged it would take time to encrypt all personal data on NHS computers but said... [07 Jul 2008]
NHS 'data spine' contract awarded
News The NHS is set to reveal the successful bidder for one of the key contracts in the £2.3bn IT modernisation of the health service next week. Richard Granger, director general of NHS IT, revealed that details of the contract award will be announced... [26 Nov 2003]
NHS data centre repairs "almost complete"
News Most repairs to computer services in 80 hospital trusts that were downed by a power cut earlier this week are complete, the NHS has reported. In a statement today, NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said: "We can report the recovery of computer... [02 Aug 2006]
NHS patient data damned as 'insecure'
News The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), a non-profit group, argued that the NHS' patient-data strategy is fundamentally flawed, and is likely to leave personal information increasingly insecure. [05 Feb 2003]
CIO Essentials: Data breaches, NHS and network abuse
News Atos Origin NHS contract not in best of health Being director of IM&T in the NHS I read all articles on NHS IT with a mixture of interest and apprehension - is this going to be a 'programme hits problems' article or an 'NHS Trust reaps benefits... [24 Apr 2007]
NHS IT patient data to aid 2011 census
News Data on health conditions and treatments made available by the £6.2bn modernisation of the NHS IT systems could render sections of the population census obsolete by 2011. The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS - now called Connecting for... [17 May 2005]
NHS hearing testers to get improved data transfer
News The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme is to implement a data integration project to improve the chances of spotting hearing impairments in babies earlier. The project should create a more family-friendly service for the NHS. [21 Nov 2007]
Pressure builds on UK government to ditch NHS data plans
News Experts are concerned the bill will sink plans to modernise NHS Information Technology, because doctors will boycott using electronic data if they don't think it's secure. If I don't think electronic data is safe from the prying eyes of the... [06 Feb 2001]
Essex NHS injects millions into voice and video network
News Essex NHS Strategic Health Authority (SHA) hopes to slash its networking costs with a multimillion pound voice video and data network linking 580 sites. It will use BT's N3 network, already being built for the NHS, to link up all of the county's... [22 Mar 2006]
Update: Crash hits 80 NHS trusts
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for health service IT, said some priority services were restored last night, and "a number" of the 80 affected trusts and primary care trusts across the region have had use of their patient... [01 Aug 2006]
NHS begins roll-out of mammoth email system
News But some NHS IT experts are concerned about the system, given the sensitivity of the data it will carry. People who want to get hold of sensitive data, like private investigators, ring up staff within the NHS pretending to be someone who has the... [10 Dec 2002]
NHS to allow database opt-outs
News A NPfIT spokesperson told Government Computing News on Monday: "In extreme circumstances, if someone can show that having their information held electronically on NHS databases will cause them or someone else unwarranted substantial damage or... [19 Jan 2005]
Doctor's smartcard scheme extended
News When a doctor arrives at a new post, identity and pre-employment checking information such as health clearance, GMC registration status and criminal records data stored on the card can be verified through a central NHS database. [23 Sep 2005]
NHS signs up SAS in fight against fraud
News The NHS Counter Fraud Service (CFS) will use software from SAS for predictive data analysis which can indicate where fraud is most likely to occur and detect previously hidden trends in the data. The NHS' fraud-busting unit has embarked on one of... [24 Jan 2007]
