SUS - new Best Practice Guidance

A Best Practice Guidance has been developed to give best practice advice on data quality areas including: access, security and confidentiality; role based access control; pseudonymisation; SUS modules and data quality.

Sharing of Data Extracts in Secondary Uses Service (SUS) - New guidance!

New guidance on sharing of data extracts is now available from the SUS Data Quality and Operational Support Team. 

The end of an era for the NPfIT (as we know it)...

“The NHS Programme is big, expensive, not delivering and very New Labour,” said one source close to the Cabinet Office. “What happens to it will set the tone for the whole of public sector ICT.”

The sun is setting on the NpfIT and CfH.  During the election, both the Tories and Lib Dems attacked the NPfIT. However, rather than terminating the programme in its entirety, the cost and complexity of terminating the LSP contracts, the government will aim to renegotiate the scope of these contracts.  For example, public technology.net reports that apparently CSC has been asked to cut 30% from the value of its LSP contract.  What does this mean for CfH?  It appears that CfH will be axed and the Cabinet Office will take over responsibility for NHS IT whilst the Department of Health's Informatics Directorate may take up some of the responsibility.   A formal announcement is imminent...

SUS handling of Sensitive Records and Data Protection Act Section 10 requests: New Guidance!

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New guidance has recently been published to support the SUS handling of sensitive records and data protection relating to CDS XML and validation and patient identifiable data relating to CDS Version 6 SUS. 

This guidance replaces the previous guidance issued by SUS on 20 October 2009. Check