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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A series of damaging cyber incidents in which data was stolen or leaked from NHS organisations seems to have done little to dent public confidence in the health service’s ability to safeguard personal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...