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 ...

Pat Langley explains the dangers practices can encounter with GDPR and data protection, and how they can stay safe.

This paper is for the Board’s information to provide an overview of the NHS OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service Pilot Directions 2025 (Directions) issued to NHS England in June 2025 by the Secretary of ...

The word ‘cybersecurity’ doesn’t appear once in the government’s 171 page ‘fit for the future’ NHS plan. Going forward the ...

Alban Collas, examines how intelligent document scanning technology ensures exceptional image quality, airtight security, and ...

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 ...

A coalition comprising medical organisations, privacy campaigns and a Conservative MP, supported by tech justice specialists Foxglove, is preparing to embark on legal action against the government to ...

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 ...

The NHS has apologised following a data breach at a company that provided wheelchairs. NHS Humber & North Yorkshire ...

An artificial intelligence model trained on the medical data of 57 million people who have used the National Health Service in England could one day assist doctors in predicting disease or forecast ...

A U.K. law firm is bringing a class-action style claim over a patient health data scandal that dates back to 2015 and involves the Google-owned AI company DeepMind, after it was quietly passed medical ...