NHS England is to delay by six months the roll-out of its controversial Care.data scheme for sharing patient records through a central database. An NHS England spokesman said the delay was to “allow ...

More than 150,000 people have had their personal information handled by England’s Test and Trace scheme since it was hurriedly launched on May 28 – 36 days ago. However, the government has failed to ...

In the wake of a disastrous data loss at the National Health Service, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has taken the unusual step of issuing a statement promising to work more closely with ...

The human genome is made up of 3 billion letters of DNA (A, T, C and G). Whole genome sequencing is a technique that is used to ‘read’ these letters and finds their order one by one. The digital ...

An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the UK’s data protection regulator after it was discovered that staff had been sharing patient details on an unapproved app for two years. Some 26 staff at NHS ...

The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office — a nondepartmental public body that reports to the Parliament — ruled London-based Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the U.K. Data ...

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 ...

Shortcomings in patient data privacy have been found by the ICO on a case involving the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust’s use of Google DeepMind. In a statement, the ICO said that the Royal Free NHS ...

Mike Fell, director of national cyber operations at NHS England has announced that he will step down from his role in May.