The UK’s Health and Social Care Information Centre has published a register of approved data releases as part of its drive towards greater transparency and building public trust. The UK’s Health and ...

The NHS's Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is to be renamed as NHS Digital, an attempt to build public recognition and trust in the informational services it provides. The ...

AstraZeneca has signed a deal with England’s Health and Social Care Information Centre to improve the usefulness of real-world data in healthcare decision making. AstraZeneca has signed a deal with ...

New NHS Spine is 'the biggest public-sector IT system to be built entirely on open source software', claims HSCIC The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has completed the final phase of ...

Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is working to make the government's identify authentication platform secure enough for the NHS to use. Verify, developed by the Government Digital Service ...

Ben Goldacre has tweeted that Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) -- the psuedonymised data collected about patients when they visit hospital, which includes patient age, gender, ethnicity, diagnoses, ...

The NHS body charged with safeguarding confidential health data has announced a rolling programme of spot checks on companies, charities, universities and government bodies that have received medical ...

I am embarrassed. Last week I wrote in support of the government's plans to collect and share the medical records of all patients in the NHS, albeit with massive caveats. The research opportunities ...

Following a review by Dame Fiona Caldicott, the UK government decided to pull the plug on care.data, a controversial NHS initiative to store all patient data on a single database. This may seem like a ...

As NHS England continues to pour out new claims over what may lawfully be done with patient data, the result is not so much clarity as more confusion. NHS England’s senior managers are not helping - ...