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 ...

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 ...

Government plans to share patient data across the NHS will have “cast-iron” security, a health minister has said. Ministers have launched a consultation on the future of the NHS, promising to put ...

U.K. Health Secretary Wes Streeting is set to sign a direction allowing a dataset from the pandemic to be accessed for ...

The NHS has not yet decided whether it will take part in a large-scale pilot involving the sharing of confidential patient details between European countries. However, following recent criticism of ...

Synnovis's 18-month forensic review of Qilin intrusion completed, now affected patients to be notified Synnovis has finally ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the world looks to contact tracing apps to help ease coronavirus lockdowns, the UK has positioned itself as an outlier. It is just one of a handful of nations to shunning the combined ...

The Cloudflare network security system, which enables about a fifth of all websites, was the latest platform to encounter ...

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), Health and Care Research Wales (HCRW), Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSC NI), the Health Research Authority (HRA, England) and ...