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 ...
Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Almost every NHS trust will have moved onto a digital system by this spring. Experts have cautioned many patients are still ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) is the strongest privacy and security law in the world. This regulation updated and modernised the principles of the 1995 data protection directive. It ...
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), ...
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 ...