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News items on 'Information Governance And Caldicott Guardianship'
Patients' confidential records on stolen ambulance laptop
(The Scotsman 20/11/2009)
THE confidential records of 600 NHS patients have been stolen after a laptop was taken from an ambulance headquarters. The laptop, which was stolen from the Scottish Ambulance Service headquarters in Morningside, Edinburgh, held the names, addresses and details of treatments for 600 patients. It is understood the information was protected by a password but was not encrypted. It was taken between 4:15pm on Tuesday and 7:30am on Wednesday.
Patient data found on hard drives
(BBC 07/05/2009)
Medical records, confidential letters and X-rays of patients in Lanarkshire have been found on second-hand computer hard drives. Two disks bought for a study on data security contained sensitive information from Monklands and Hairmyres hospitals. NHS Lanarkshire said the disks were disposed of in 2006 before it improved its data protection procedures. Other disks contained bank details and information on missile defence.
Two thirds of GPs sign up for IGSoC
(eHealthInsider 08/04/2009)
Around two-thirds of GP practices had signed up to NHS Connecting for Health's information governance standards by the deadline of the end of March, according to the Department of Health. The DH said it was 'Cextremely pleased' with the response, although CfH was unable to confirm how many of those 5,800 practices had met its standards by achieving level 2 of the Information Governance Toolkit. All practices must achieve level 2 compliance by the end of March 2010.
Patients must visit their GP to stay off Big Brother database
(Daily Mail 11/03/2009)
Patients have been told they must be quizzed by Health Service officials if they want to keep their name off a national medical database. Everyone who wants to be omitted from the 'Big Brother' scheme will have to visit their GP and make their case in person. Under the scheme, medical records for 50million people will be stored on an electronic database, at a cost of £12billion.
Doctors' outcry over plan to sell patient records
(Telegraph 03/03/2009)
Government plans, contained in the Coroners and Justice Bill, would allow almost unlimited access to medical records of named individuals without their consent. Under the proposals, patient information held by GPs, health centres, pharmacists and hospitals could be passed to insurance companies or research organisations. The data could also be given to other government departments, such as the Department for Work and Pensions to check whether people who claimed benefits were able to work.
Data plans 'medical records risk'
(BBC 03/03/2009)
Doctors have warned that plans to relax data sharing rules could damage patient confidentiality. A group of eight leading medical groups have urged ministers to re-think the Coroners and Justice Bill, currently working its way through parliament. The organisations, including the British Medical Association, said they had "grave concerns" it could open up medical records and damage trust.
TV presenters in NHS data fears
(BBC 03/12/2008)
Several BBC Scotland presenters have been told their personal health records may have been inappropriately accessed by a doctor in Fife. The doctor, who has not been identified, is facing charges relating to an allegation that he misused access to NHS electronic records. Newsreader Jackie Bird and six other journalists received a letter from NHS Fife over the potential breach.
Health boards 'broke data laws'
(BBC 26/11/2008)
Two Scottish health boards broke data protection laws by leaving patients' personal information at abandoned hospitals, it has been ruled. In May, it was revealed that documents had been discovered at Strathmartine Hospital on the outskirts of Dundee. Then in July a similar find was made at the former Law Hospital in Carluke.
Cayton stakes claim to independence of NIGB
(eHealthInsider 17/11/2008)
The new chair of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care criticised plans to make it easier for researchers to access patient information. According to the Guardian, Harry Cayton has described plans to give researchers access to patient information to recruit for medical trials as "ethically unacceptable." The proposals are included in the NHS constitution.
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