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 ...

Synnovis, a leading UK pathology services provider, is notifying healthcare providers that a data breach occurred following a ...

The NHS Federated Data Platform has been rolled out to more than 100 NHS organisations in its first year, according to NHS England. The platform, which has created controversy since its inception, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

NHS provider Synnovis is notifying clients about the extent of a data breach 17 months after it suffered a ransomware attack ...

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 ...