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NHS Tayside and Lanarkshire guilty of data breaches

Two Scottish health boards have been found in breach of data protection laws for leaving patients’ personal information on paper
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National media attention for anti-smartcard group

In Germany this week doctors and civil rights activists joined forces to organise a boycott of the German smartcard programme,
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SCR opt-out sets ‘onerous’ conditions, says GP

Patients who want to opt-out from having a Summary Care Record will have to apply for exemption under section 10
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Data from half a million patients to aid research

UK Biobank, a medical research initiative charity, is to start using patient data to provide reliable assessment of different causes
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Row Over Health Records Review Secrecy

Campaigners this week alleged that the Department of Health (DH) had broken undertakings to keep fees low for patient access
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