encryption

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20 March 2020

NHS Digital brings on security software firm to shore up NHSmail

Egress Protect will be integrated into NHSmail to offer enhanced protection and enable health practitioners to send encrypted emails to
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Another view - Neil Paul
8 June 2018

Another view: of cryptography and proving our identity

Our GP columnist has had a long term fascination with cryptography, and wonders whether it could prove useful in the
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28 July 2016

Davey Winder: Medics texting patient data? It has to stop

The NHS needs secure applications for exchanging sensitive healthcare information. It doesn’t need doctors and nurses sending texts and pictures
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Information Commissioner's Office
7 January 2016

ICO warns Alzheimer’s Society

The Alzheimer’s Society faces potential prosecution for failing to protect sensitive personal data if it fails to comply with a
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19 January 2012

Praxis commits to encrypt patient data

An Isle of Man care provider has pledged to encrypt all personal data on portable devices after an employee lost
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16 June 2010

NHS has much to do on data security

The NHS has much to do on data security and is still making “far too many” mistakes in securing patients’
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6 May 2010

MH records found in Asda car park

A hospital worker at Bellsydke Hospital in Scotland has been suspended after medical records belonging to patients at a secure
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25 January 2010

Southampton rapped by ICO

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be rapped for breaching the Data Protection Act. Chief
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23 November 2009

Scottish Ambulance Service laptop stolen

The Scottish Ambulance Service has confirmed that a laptop containing more than 600 patient medical records has been stolen from
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13 October 2009

Cheshire and Wirral encrypts email

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it will use a trust-wide external email encryption system from
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