The UK's data protection watchdog has levied its first fine against an NHS organisation, after a Welsh hospital accidentally sent a patient's health details to the wrong person. The Information ...

England’s National Health Service (NHS) has long had grand ambitions for data use and sharing, but in the past has failed to win over the public with its plans. It hopes secure data environments will ...

Fresh research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) could transform how the NHS protects patients’ medical images from cyber‑attacks. Computer scientists have developed a breakthrough way ...

U.K. data protection authorities have issued a provisional fine of more than £6 million to NHS vendor Advanced after finding that the company failed to properly secure the information of thousands of ...

An NHS private contractor has been found to have had a misconfigured API that potentially allowed outside actors to retrieve patient data. An ongoing audit seems to suggest no data was taken. A ...

On 13 June 2022, the Department of Health and Social Care released its new Strategy for the use of health and social care data in the UK (Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data), ...

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The purpose of this campaign, supporting NHS England’s responsibility to promote health equity and better outcomes, is to deliver a national proactive outreach campaign for the Personalised Prevention ...

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has called for “serious improvements” to data protection processes for organizations handling information on HIV sufferers, after reprimanding an NHS ...

Plans in development to create a “single source” of healthcare data in England to enhance patient safety are moving closer to reality with the publication of a report by the Acute Data Alignment ...