The sensitive medical data of transplant patients from across the UK was routinely sent over an unencrypted pager network, an NHS service has admitted. A BBC investigation found NHS Blood and ...

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 ...

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 ...

NHS England’s Federated Data Platform, run primarily by controversial US military contractor Palantir, would give a future UK government the ability to use patients’ healthcare data to unleash ...

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 ...

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 NHS needs to design more “role-specific, tailored data protection training” for staff, The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) warned on Monday (22 June). In recent months, several healthcare ...