Tories offer NHS IT rescue plan after major patient data losses
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Propose switch to decentralised, interoperable databases The Tory party has put forward a rescue plan for the NHS IT system in the wake of the latest government data losses, which were revealed over the weekend. Nine English NHS trusts have owned up to large scale losses of personal data, and although in most cases the nature of this data has yet to be revealed, City &amp; Hackney Primary Care Trust reportedly mislaid the names and addresses of 160,000 children.â¦
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Health dept does u-turn The Information Commissioner has been told that patients will have the opportunity to refuse to have their details uploaded onto the new NHS medical records system. The news comes just weeks after the Department of Health refused patients that right.â¦
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Electronic Data Systems has admitted that an error by one of its computer operators during a Microsoft Windows upgrade caused 40,000 PCs at the United Kingdom&#39;s Department of Work and Pensions to crash last month.
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The UK government says that its U.S. contractor lost a hard drive with personal data on 3 million drivers in training.
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The NHS is failing to offer sufficient out-of-hours GP care for severely ill patients, experts say.
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Some 40,000 computers in the U.K. Department for Work and Pensions were cut off from their network last month when an IT technician erroneously installed a software upgrade, according to EDS.
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There is a ready market for the data lost by the HMRC say computer security experts.
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Department responsible for collecting taxes, administering other services, admits another data loss.
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NHS trusts have a Â£4bn backlog of key maintenance repairs, government figures suggest.
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Replaces Lord Hunt Ben Bradshaw MP is the new minister of state in charge of the NHS IT programme.â¦
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A laptop containing data on 106,000 Connecticut taxpayers is missing, prompting that state's governor to order IT officials to implement new controls for protecting data by Sept. 7.
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ENGINEERS were today tackling a massive computer failure which has caused chaos at the Department for Work and Pensions. Up to 80 per cent of the ministryâs systems for processing millions of pension and benefit payments collapsed on Monday.
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The NHS in England is to spend Â£172m on management consultants this year, the Tories have claimed.
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We don't need NPfIT, we need Google Tory leader David Cameron used a speech in Trafford yesterday to make another attempt to gain credibility for his party's management of the NHS.â¦
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Not enough of Scotland's health service budget is being spent on computer systems which could improve patient care, according to a spending watchdog.
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The government announces proposals to improve patient safety as a study finds current safeguards are failing.
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IT firm Accenture pulls out of key parts of a beleaguered Â£6.2bn upgrade of the NHS computer system.