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Mesothelioma: new audit published for first time
September 12, 2014: New information from the National Lung Cancer Audit(3) about the diagnosis and treatment of patients with mesothelioma (a cancer involving the outer membrane of the lung) has been published for the first time today by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - September 11, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Fall in older people registered as blind or partially sighted
September 02, 2014: New figures show a downward trend in the number of people aged 75 or over who are registered as blind or partially sighted.(2,3) (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - September 2, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

The NHS receives 480 written complaints per day
· Almost 175,000 reported complaints made in 2013-14 (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - August 28, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Number of patients with recorded diagnosis of dementia increases by 62 per cent over seven years
July 30, 2014: Provisional figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show 344,000 patients had a recorded diagnosis of dementia in 2013-14. (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - July 30, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Health data development: HSCIC secures global status for UK
HSCIC now a designated centre for health classifications and coding (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - July 28, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

School pupil survey: smoking, drinking and drug use at decade low
July 24, 2014: New figures for 2013 show the prevalence of smoking, drinking or drug use among school pupils is considerably lower than ten years ago. (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - July 24, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Annual NHS national sickness absence rate declines to lowest level in five years
July 22, 2014: Annual NHS national sickness absence rates in England are at their lowest point since 2009-10, when they first started being recorded by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) (2). The latest figures show that NHS workers on average had one day off sick out of every 25 (14.82 days a year) in 2013-14 a 4.06 per cent absence rate. This is a decrease in the number of days off sick from 2012-13, when the sickness absence rate stood at 4.24 per cent, one day off out of every 24 (15.52 days a year). (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - July 22, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Report shows how many head and neck cancer patients receive important elements of care
July 11, 2014: Information is released today about the number of head and neck cancer patients receiving important elements of care. (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - July 11, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Four in ten social services users have as much social contact as they want
New measure in report benchmarking local social services (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - July 8, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

GP to chair independent group advising on use of patient data
July 01, 2014: Dr Joanne Bailey has been appointed as the new chair of an independent group set up to advise on the use of patient data from GP records. (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - July 1, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Diabetes patients develop preventable complications in hospital and access to specialist staff is 'inadequate'
Clinical audit shows patient care improving, but there is 'a great deal more to do' (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - June 26, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

One in 50 outpatients who miss an appointment fail to attend three or more further appointments within three months
June 25, 2014: Hospitals in England recorded that one in 50 patients (65,590 of 3.5 million) who missed an outpatient appointment failed to attend three or more further appointments within three months (4). (Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - June 25, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Hospital admissions for allergies up nearly eight per cent in a year
(Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - June 3, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Publication of HSCIC register of approved data releases: clarification on points of public interest
(Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - April 4, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news

Health and Social Care Information Centre publishes register of data releases
(Source: The IC: Outpatients)
Source: The IC: Outpatients - April 3, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news