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NHS organisations that fail to reach "digital maturity" by 2018-20 will be at risk of having their funding pulled, Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information at NHS England, has said. Kelsey was speaking to The Register ahead of the NHS's release of its Personalised Health and Care 2020 strategy today. The …

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  1. Steve Knox
    Facepalm

    Only in Government

    is a 24-month span considered a "rigid date".

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  2. Livinglegend
    Coat

    If they can't

    force care.data on the GPs, they will force it on YOU anyway.

    These people work for you, you are their employer and they treat you like crap, shoving your face into their corrupt mess. Disgusting, that they intend to sell fully identifiable databases of patients records to anyone who wants them for a few quid. Once passed on to a shell company they can be resold to neighbours, stalkers, insurance companies, nutters, etc. without any recourse to the original distributer, care.data. They take you for fools, don't let them or you will be the fool!

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    1. FlatSpot
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      Re: If they can't

      Sounds like a Daily Mail rant... If people can do stuff online, saves me time and provides more time for receptionists to eat cake without being disturbed, a win/win.

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    2. sad_loser
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      Re: If they can't

      The big data loss, when it happens will be incompetence not malice, and sloppy processes in the NHS are likely to be at fault

      i don't understand why all NHS organisations aren't ISO 27001 compliant as at least someone would have documented processes.

      It would be the minimum standard in any high grade commercial sensitive data.

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      1. Prudo King
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        Re: If they can't

        All NHS Trust's and any other organisation that access the N3 network, have to reach minimum Level 2 standards on the DoH HSCIC IG Toolkit which models itself on the ISO27001 & 27002 frameworks, amongst other legal frameworks such as the Civil Contingencies Act, DPA, etc.

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  3. AMBxx Silver badge
    FAIL

    Fax machines

    Maybe they'll upgrade all those fax machines to digital faxes? Still have to refer patients by fax over here.

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  4. John Robson Silver badge

    I appreciate the paper based charts and notes at hospital, they have a tendency to carry on working in all sorts of situations....

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    1. AMBxx Silver badge
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      Joke

      What's wrong with using cloud based notes!?!?!?!??! Oh, wait....

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  5. Salts

    I wish ...

    They had given some back ground on Dame Fiona Caldicott, anyway here is a little bit

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Caldicott

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27069553

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  6. Elmer Phud

    Won't get paid?

    Nijel the Destroyer has said he wants to offload the NHS to the highest bidder.

    Sounds as if Kelsey is doing some pre-sale markdowns.

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  7. Kane
    Joke

    "We certainly don't think its not a challenge."

    So...it's a challenge then? Challenge Accepted!

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  8. cantankerous swineherd
    Mushroom

    digital maturity - the ability of Kelsey and McKinseys friends to slurp and disseminate confidential medical data at will.

    oh, and he wants us to fund him.

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  9. David Pollard

    Be recorded or you won't get treated?

    Is this an early hint of plans to use Care.Data to save the NHS money?

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  10. DocJames

    Given that UK general practice

    was considered to lead the world in the 1990s, it's a shame that the government made such a mess by introducing a series of big bang projects (which failed, predictably). Evolution tends to beat revolution, particularly when revolution is funded by those who will benefit.

    Never mind, we'll keep going backwards with more money splurged yet. Shame about the patients.

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  11. cortland

    will be at risk of having their funding pulled

    Are you trying to"catch up" to the USA?

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