Britain’s health service has warned staff that they could face jail time if found guilty of accessing patient data without a ...

A staff member sent the personal details of around 150 women who were in contact with a Scottish NHS Trust’s maternity ...

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 ...

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 ...

The potential for foreign access to NHS data reminds us why sovereignty must underpin the federated data platform, writes ...

Health chiefs in Forth Valley have launched an investigation after a serious data breach involving sensitive information ...

An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the UK’s data protection regulator after it was discovered that staff had been sharing patient details on an unapproved app for two years. Some 26 staff at NHS ...

In the wake of a disastrous data loss at the National Health Service, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has taken the unusual step of issuing a statement promising to work more closely with ...

The UK’s data protection watchdog has ruled that a deal to share 1.6 million NHS patient records with the Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind “failed to comply with data protection ...

Police forces will be able to “strong-arm” NHS bodies into handing over confidential patient data under planned laws that have sparked fury from doctors’ groups and the UK’s medical watchdog.