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Launch of the UK's first postgraduate programme in Healthcare Information Governance

10-23-2006 · University of Bath

A postgraduate course dedicated to helping health service professionals throughout the UK deal with the sensitivities, ethics and security of the information they handle was officially launched at an event in Scotland today (23 October).

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