Information Commissioner Archives

20 December 2007

The Information Commissioner’s Office has found the Department of Health in breach of the Data Protection Act following an investigation

26 November 2007

The government is reportedly reviewing whether sensitive information about NHS patients could be sent overseas for processing. A leaked internal

21 November 2007

Richard Jeavons, senior responsible owner for service implementation at Connecting for Health has admitted to the Commons Home Affairs Committee

21 November 2007

The Information Commissioner has highlighted the importance of tight security and data protection in public sector bodies, following the security

20 November 2007

The court should be able to prosecute doctors who have laptops containing unencrypted patient information stolen from their cars, according

14 November 2007

The government has rejected calls from the Commons Health Select Committee to apply consent to the use of Secondary Uses

3 October 2007

The Information Tribunal has ruled that medical records of a dead woman should not be released, because there is still

24 September 2007

Health minister Ben Bradshaw has refused to release information on the legality of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) and

19 June 2007

Guidance on how the two elements of the NHS electronic patient record – the detailed and summary records – will

4 June 2007

The Office of Government Commerce has reportedly ordered civil servants to destroy copies of Gateway review reports into government computer

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