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Datasets (both digital and paper) are held by NHS data controllers, e.g. NHS Trusts for secondary/tertiary care and by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)/General Practitioners for primary care. We assume that the patient records fall into the following categories and in each we know the appr...
Healthcare security nightmare: UK's NHS lost nearly 10K patient records last year (TechRepublic) Despite having electronic record systems in place, 94% of NHS Trusts still use handwritten notes for patient record keeping, according to a report from Parliament Street. Government websites hijack...
In recent years, many hospitals have reviewed and developed their hip fracture programme. The NHS Institute of Innovation and Improvement worked with 10 trusts across the UK to pilot rapid improvement programmes and published recommendations in their report, ‘Focus on: Fractured neck of Femur in 20...
(November 2021), with over 50million appointments booked in total; we saw NHS trusts create virtual wards which transformed patient access so that acute, monitoring, and treatment can be provided at home; and we saw how the NHS App became the most downloaded free app on the AppStore, with...
Offshore accounts are often used for real estate management, investment management, trusts, or holding deposits. Documents Needed To Open a UK Bank Account To open a UK bank account, you generally need the following: Proof of identity: Passports, driving licences, and national identity cards are...
‘Difficult choices’ coming in budget, minister warns Ministers to oversee HS2 as costs allowed to ‘spiral out of control’ New laws will be introduced, the government says, to make NHS patient records available across all NHS trusts, GP surgeries and ambulance services in England to speed ...
The procurement thresholds are applicable to public purchasing. This includes government departments, local authorities, NHS Trusts, utilities, housing associations etc. They cover the following: The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 The Concession Contracts Regulations 2016 ...
Transparency and anti-corruption policies are closely linked and overlap. Greater openness and publicity is seen as a vital means of preventing and exposing corrupt activity, as the arrows in Figure 1 indicate. Although the UK civil service, Whitehall and its agencies claim to be an open and ‘...
Starmer, whose background is in law not economics, trusts Reeves implicitly. For now at least she holds great sway across a whole swath of government activity. It was instructive that Reeves announced reforms to Britain’s sclerotic planning system, even though that policy lies within Rayner’s...