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
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.
Speaking at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo conference, health minister Lord O’Shaughnessy announced the initial technology partnerships Code of Conduct for Data-driven Health and Care Technology.
The code encourages companies to meet a gold-standard set of principles that will protect patient data and make sure only the best technologies are used by the NHS, to bring real benefits to patients.
In October 2017 NHS England informed the Committee of Public Accounts that it had discovered a backlog of 162,000 items of clinical correspondence that had not been redirected. NHS England stated that a small proportion of GPs had not been complying with guidance and had erroneously been sending clinical correspondence and other material to Capita, the current provider of primary care support services for NHS England. Capita has no contractual responsibility for redirecting clinical correspondence. This investigation sets out the facts around the backlog of unprocessed correspondence.
From 25 May, you’ll be able to make a choice about how the NHS uses your confidential patient information for reasons other than your care. 77% of the public say they are confident in the ability of the NHS to protect their patient data. Are you?
We asked a citizen's jury to tell us what uses of confidential patient information it's reasonable to expect. Today we publish the jury's findings and reflect on what they told us.
A new report from the Parliament Street think tank has revealed that nearly 10,000 patient records were lost by the National Health Service (NHS) last year. The report has appeared in both The Times and The Daily Mail this morning.
Cybersecurity experts warned that the records could be stolen and traded on the Dark Web.
Read the full report and analysis here: NHS Patient Records Report