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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the NHS launches a new AI-powered safety warning system for patient protection, behind the scenes, the Department of ...

Microsoft has launched an AI assistant to the NHS which captures clinical conversations to draft documentation and automate ...

The public remains largely unaware that their GP records will soon be made available to third parties through an NHS data-sharing initiative. With this in mind, we are calling on the government to ...

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 ...

Media organisations Open Democracy and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have acted in unison to put in question the NHS and the UK state’s wider dealings with data mining company Palantir. The ...