DPA

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28 October 2009

Trust loses cancer patient data

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust has been criticised by the Information Commissioner for losing three unencrypted USB sticks
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20 October 2009

PDS access requires ‘business reason’

Staff accessing the Personal Demographics Service must have an appropriate ‘business reason’ for doing so, but need not have a
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21 September 2009

GPs warned about fake DPA agencies

GP practices have been warned to look out for bogus data protection firms posing as official government bodies. Londonwide Local
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18 August 2009

Practice server found in car park

An Ipswich GP has been rapped by the Information Commissioner’s Office after a computer server holding sensitive information was found
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29 July 2009

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
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31 March 2009

Hospitals breaking DPA every day

The BMA says hospitals are breaking the Data Protection Act on a daily basis by sending referral correspondence to the
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19 February 2009

BCS and ICO join Coroners protest

The British Computer Society and the Information Commissioner’s Office have joined the growing swell of concern about the data sharing
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18 February 2009

Another PCT rapped over data loss

The Information Commissioner’s Office has taken enforcement action against another NHS body for a breach of the Data Protection Act.
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9 February 2009

Brent PCT rapped over data loss

A third English NHS Trust in the space of a month has been required to take enforcement action by the
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23 January 2009

Two NHS trusts rapped over data losses

The Information Commisioner’s Office has taken enforecment action against two NHS trusts for data losses that placed them in breach
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