The Adult Social Care Data and Cyber Security Discovery Programme was funded by the national cyber security programme to explore how the adult social care sector uses technology and to identify good practice, as well as security risks, prevalent in the sector.
This report identifies the common, key risks that provider services face. In addition, it considers the effectiveness of existing support for providers and the changes needed nationally and locally to systems and support in order to maintain cyber security and good information governance.
Today the London Ambulance Service begins a pilot to enable its clinicians to securely access Summary Care Record data on an iPad, without the need for a smartcard or N3, by using the new NHS Identity Service to authenticate to the system.
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The code of conduct contains a set of principles that set out what we expect from suppliers of data-driven technologies, and a set of commitments that outline what the government will do to support and encourage innovators in health and care.
The aim of the code is to make it easier for our suppliers to understand what we need from them, and to help health and care providers choose safe, effective, secure technology to improve the services they provide.
There is a premium placed on the maintenance of our privacy and confidentiality as individuals in society. For a productive and functional doctor–patient relationship, there needs to be a belief that details divulged in confidence to the doctor will be kept confidential and not disclosed to the wider public. However, where the information disclosed to the doctor could have implications for the safety of the wider public, for example disclosures with potential criminal implications, or have serious consequences for another individual, as is the case in genetic medicine, should doctors feel confident about breaching confidentiality? This essay firstly explores the legal rulings regarding cases in which confidentiality has been breached where there was risk of significant harm to others following the patient’s disclosure, and secondly, focusing on the evolving legal position with regard to confidentiality in contexts where information sharing would be beneficial to others, for example the evolving case of the implications of genetic diagnosis on families (eg, ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust; 2017).. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
If the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no deal, find out how the rules governing data protection would change. This includes:
sharing personal data collected by EU organisations with UK organisations
sharing personal data collected by UK organisations with EU organisations
This template can be used by organisations to conduct data protection impact assessments for their surveillance cameras or surveillance camera systems.
A summary of how the Government intends the UK’s data protection law will work in the unlikely event the UK leaves the EU without a deal, subject to Parliamentary approval.
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the need for data security and a nurse's duty of confidentiality in relation to electronic records. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
An expert in cyber security at the University of York comments on new research from the University of Toronto on the security issues around data sharing by mobile health apps.
The Report concluded that the shortage in specialist skills and deep technical expertise is one of the greatest challenges faced by the UK’s CNI operators and regulators in relation to cyber security, but that the UK Government had no real sense of the problem or how to address it effectively.