The NHS Federated Data Platform is a series of separate data platforms, that we call ‘instances’. Every hospital trust and ICB (on behalf of the ICS) will have their own instance of the NHS Federated ...

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 ...

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 ...

A series of damaging cyber incidents in which data was stolen or leaked from NHS organisations seems to have done little to dent public confidence in the health service’s ability to safeguard personal ...

It's been a difficult few weeks for the NHS's digital ambitions. On 3 June a ransomware cyber attack on pathology test provider Synnovis led to thousands of cancelled appointments and procedures and a ...

The medical records of some NHS Lothian patients have been accessed in a data breach. The breach is believed to have been ...

The private details of almost 300 NHS Highland staff and patients were exposed due to data breaches over an almost 18 month period.

Plans in development to create a “single source” of healthcare data in England to enhance patient safety are moving closer to reality with the publication of a report by the Acute Data Alignment ...

Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) is on track to win a contract to overhaul the UK’s National Health Service even as concerns remain over data privacy, Bloomberg reported. Palantir (PLTR ...