Imperial breaches the DPA
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to breach the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The undertaking says six laptops were stolen in two burglaries at St Mary’s Hospital, one of which was unencrypted even though it held patient details. […]
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Scotland awards device security contract
NHS National Services Scotland has awarded a £1m contract to Lumension to nationally enforce security policies governing the storage of data across the NHS.
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Lancashire takes charge of USB ports
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has taken control of its USB ports using a data protection solution from Lumension Security. The trust, which employs 3,500 staff and provides mental health and substance misuse services across Lancashire, held a USB stick amnesty and replaced “rogue” devices with officially sanctioned memory sticks. It then implemented the Sanctuary […]
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NHS Lothian implements USB stick lock-down
NHS Lothian is taking further action to prevent staff losing data on USB sticks, after a community health worker lost the personal details of 137 patients on a memory stick at the end of June. Since the loss of the memory stick, which held letters to central Edinburgh GPs, the trust has run a USB […]
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