U.K.-based healthcare tech provider DXS International said it discovered and contained a data breach on Sunday. A ransomware ...

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 ...

Companies in the UK are doing a great job at data protection but compliance in the NHS and local government sectors is a bit shakier, the Information Commissioner's Office has said. The privacy ...

The NHS should provide a trusted repository for patients’ personal data – but, sadly, this is not always the case. The past few years have seen numerous examples of NHS organisations losing data, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It comes as reports highlighted how Chinese research institutes have accessed data from a major UK study. The UK Biobank study holds anonymised genetic information and health information on half a ...