New Personal Demographics Service guide for general practice - 11 Oct
A new general practice guide to the Personal Demographics Service (PDS) has been published by NHS Connecting for Health.
The new guide (PDF 1.9Mb) is an update to the first guide issued in 2006. It provides a useful introduction to the PDS and information on access and security, Data Quality and the PDS National Back Office (PBO).
The Personal Demographics Service is the national electronic database of NHS patient demographic details, used by NHS organisations. It enables a patient to be readily identified by healthcare professionals and associated, quickly and accurately, with their correct medical details.
It does not hold any clinical health record information, or other sensitive data items such as ethnicity or religion.
The PDS is an essential element of the NHS Care Records Service, which will underpin the creation of an electronic care record for every registered NHS patient in England by 2010.
Source
- Long - http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/newsroom/news-stories/pds111007
- Tiny - http://tinyurl.com/36b8ba
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