The NHS must make “much more use of technology”, the Prime Minister has insisted amid concerns about plans to share patient data in the NHS. New laws are set to be introduced to make patient records ...

Proposed new laws will make patient records available across all NHS hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulance services in England. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting have ...

Campaigners are rightly concerned that the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill winding its way through Parliament will, if passed, undermine many of the current protections for our personal ...

An NHS trust with more than half a million patients each year has been found to be ‘in breach’ of a data protection law. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - which manages Stepping Hill Hospital - was ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

If we want a better future for the NHS, we need a collective commitment to ethical, transparent and innovative data practices, says Sir Nigel Shadbolt Recent events underscore the importance of ...

Oluwasanya Ogunsakin, a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Digital Health and Care Wales, United Kingdom played a lead role in the migration of 350 NHS Wales public health servers from on-premises ...

An NHS trust has been fined £325,000 by a data protection watchdog after highly sensitive files of tens of thousands of patients, including details of HIV treatment, ended up being sold on eBay. Did ...

It comes as reports highlighted how Chinese research institutes have accessed data from a major UK study. The UK Biobank study holds anonymised genetic information and health information on half a ...