The UK's data protection watchdog has levied its first fine against an NHS organisation, after a Welsh hospital accidentally sent a patient's health details to the wrong person. The Information ...

NHS patient data in England will be shared with third parties for research and planning purposes, fueling concerns about privacy and security, it has been reported today. The Financial Times revealed ...

Notably, in June 2025, King's College Hospital NHS Trust confirmed that the disruption caused by Synnovis's supplier breach ...

Synnovis, a leading UK pathology services provider, is notifying healthcare providers that a data breach occurred following a ...

Pathology services provider says organisations whose data was affected by the disruptive 'smash and grab' attack, reportedly ...

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 ...

There is increasing pressure for patient health data in the UK to be shared for planning and research, particularly in light of COVID-19. This has been demonstrated by recent NHS plans for patient ...

A coalition comprising medical organisations, privacy campaigns and a Conservative MP, supported by tech justice specialists Foxglove, is preparing to embark on legal action against the government to ...

NHS Scotland has signed up Check Point to secure and streamline the management of sensitive health data held in the cloud, and bring the hyperscalability needed to support the rapid roll-out of its ...