The NHS Federated Data Platform is a series of separate data platforms, that we call ‘instances’. Every hospital trust and ICB (on behalf of the ICS) will have their own instance of the NHS Federated ...

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 ...

In July, NHS England wrote to GP Practices requiring them to instruct their clinical system supplier to make data available to the OpenSAFELY platform, under the NHS OpenSAFELY Data Analytics Service ...

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 ...

A series of damaging cyber incidents in which data was stolen or leaked from NHS organisations seems to have done little to dent public confidence in the health service’s ability to safeguard personal ...

Plans in development to create a “single source” of healthcare data in England to enhance patient safety are moving closer to reality with the publication of a report by the Acute Data Alignment ...

It's been a difficult few weeks for the NHS's digital ambitions. On 3 June a ransomware cyber attack on pathology test provider Synnovis led to thousands of cancelled appointments and procedures and a ...

The NHS has apologised following a data breach at a company that provided wheelchairs. NHS Humber & North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) said NRS Healthcare experienced a "cyber security ...

“This innovative use of data, known as population health management, is allowing us to see the bigger picture helping us to improve local health, prevent illnesses and ensure public money is better ...

Google is facing a new class-action style lawsuit in the U.K. in relation to a health data scandal that broke back in 2016, when it emerged that its AI division, DeepMind, had been passed data on more ...

Threat actors have published nearly 400GB of data stolen from pathology provider Synnovis, including sensitive NHS patient information, according to reports. The data was apparently accessed by ...