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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has finally shared the results of its lengthy investigation into DeepMind’s original deal with the NHS. According to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the ...

The government earned glowing headlines this week for its pledge to create a £250 million National Artificial Intelligence Lab for healthcare, but details on how the eye-popping sum will be spent ...