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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Can we have a little chat about your privacy? "Why?" you ask. Well, because it appears the UK government is selling off the rights to your personal health data in the name of "transparency" and "open ...

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has finally agreed to opt-out patients from the NHS's controversial care.data programme. The programme, which aims to take data from GP surgeries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) proves that it only takes a spreadsheet and some determination to get started in HR analytics. There isn’t a manual for what I’m doing at the ...

Two NHS IT systems will be moved from BT to be managed in-house by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) from February 2015. The transition is part of a plan to move major NHS IT ...