Data breaches

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Coffee Time Briefing
21 May 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā˜•

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing today includes UK healthcare operations software provider Agilio acquiring PraQties, and a digital tool to
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Coffee Time Briefing
16 May 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā˜•

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing today includes the good news that surfing the web can improve your wellbeing and NHSE
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Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
8 December 2023

Cambridge Uni Hospitals CEO apologises following patient data breaches

Cambridge University Hospitals has apologised after it mistakenly released private patient information in two major data breaches in 2020 and
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27 June 2023

Eight in ten UK health orgs have had a security breach since 2021

New research has revealed that nearly eight in 10 UK providers of frontline healthcare services have experienced at least one
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18 November 2014

Data breaches ‘should lead to jail time’

Leading privacy watchdog Big Brother Watch has called for tougher penalties for breaches of the Data Protection Act, arguing that
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Information Commissioner's Office
15 February 2013

Nursing council fined Ā£150,000

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has been fined Ā£150,000 for breaching the Data Protection Act.
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28 November 2012

Bedford prevents data loss with Symantec

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust has deployed Symantecā€™s Dataloss Prevention Solution to monitor and protect confidential patient data being sent by
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3 May 2011

Scotland gets FairWarning of breaches

Northgate Managed Services has won contract to roll-out its FairWarning privacy surveillance system across Scotland.
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28 July 2009

Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’

Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial
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27 May 2009

NHS told to secure patient data

The Information Commissioner has written to the permanent secretary of the Department of Health demanding immediate improvements to the lax
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