NHS England is to delay by six months the roll-out of its controversial Care.data scheme for sharing patient records through a central database. An NHS England spokesman said the delay was to “allow ...

U.K.-based healthcare tech provider DXS International said it discovered and contained a data breach on Sunday. A ransomware ...

More than 150,000 people have had their personal information handled by England’s Test and Trace scheme since it was hurriedly launched on May 28 – 36 days ago. However, the government has failed to ...

General practice in the UK has undergone significant digital transformation, with cloud-based EHR systems replacing legacy on ...

The NHS should provide a trusted repository for patients’ personal data – but, sadly, this is not always the case. The past few years have seen numerous examples of NHS organisations losing data, ...

Companies in the UK are doing a great job at data protection but compliance in the NHS and local government sectors is a bit shakier, the Information Commissioner's Office has said. The privacy ...

Care.data is an NHS England project to store all GP patient data in a central database housed by the Health and Social Care Information Center (HSCIC). There it was to be amalgamated with the HES data ...

The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office — a nondepartmental public body that reports to the Parliament — ruled London-based Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the U.K. Data ...

An NHS trust with more than half a million patients each year has been found to be ‘in breach’ of a data protection law. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - which manages Stepping Hill Hospital - was ...

To get a doctor’s appointment in the U.K. these days, you have to entrust more of your data to private companies — and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. In part due to growing pressure ...

Shortcomings in patient data privacy have been found by the ICO on a case involving the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust’s use of Google DeepMind. In a statement, the ICO said that the Royal Free NHS ...