Available in all good GP surgeries – new patient information leaflet on the...
This leaflet ‘Your health records saves lives’ (click on the picture below) marks the fruits of much hard work by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) partnership over two years. Conceived,...
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Here’s hoping this works. So, (sorry John Humphries et al) rather than send you all off somewhere else, here is the pdf of the whole patient information leaflet ‘Your health records saves lives’ which...
View ArticleCaldicott 2 public evidence sessions
If you are looking for Olympics-mayhem avoidance strategies then what better than taking the opportunity to share your views on Information Governance. My good colleagues at INVOLVE have reminded me to...
View ArticleHow a Dame and the Great British Public might bring an end to the patient...
The Health Service Journal (HSJ) has an ‘exclusive’ interview today with Dame Fiona Caldicott. Dame Fiona has been chairing a review – of information governance in health and social care –...
View ArticleBig data, big stage, cue patients as the leading actor. Remarks at...
The following is a more polished and slightly amended version [the bits in brackets I didn't say] of the remarks I made at the ABPI/NIHR conference about big data which took place in London yesterday....
View ArticleNuffield report underlines importance of public participation if people are...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics have today published their report: ‘The collection, linking and use of data in biomedical research and health care: ethical issues’ following months of inquiry by an...
View ArticleA trip down memory lane makes me think Stockport is the perfect place to...
It is curious how life often brings us back to places once well-trodden but then lost to us for one reason or another. Last week I was in Stockport. I have a vivid childhood memory of my mother taking...
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