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Data Protection Act: NHS compliance

  • Kennedys Law LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • May 24 2013

The Information Commissioner has asked for powers to carry out compulsory assessments of NHS bodies' compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998

Caldicott 2 The Information Governance Review: The final chance to get it right?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 14 2013

Dame Fiona Caldicott is right when she observes confusion and a lack of clarity when it comes to sharing information - often to the detriment of

NHS, beware! Government puts forward case for compulsory data protection audit powers over NHS organisations

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 22 2013

The Ministry of Justice has launched a consultation proposing to make NHS organisations subject to compulsory data protection audits by the

Disclosure of social work records in litigation

  • Thirty Nine Essex Street
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 16 2013

Sensitive social work records may be sought during litigation, either as a subject access request under the Data Protection Act 1998, or simply by way

Regulatory press round-up: March 2013

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 4 2013

On 25 March, the GMC published their updated version of ‘Good medical practice’, the core ethical guidance they provide to doctors. This follows a

£150k fine issued to the Nursing and Midwifery Council by the Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") for loss of unencrypted DVDs

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 28 2013

The Nursing and Midwifery Council, responsible for regulating nurses and midwives throughout the UK, has been issued with a £150,000 monetary penalty

New General Practice Extraction Service

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 26 2013

From April 2013 the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) will form part of the NHS's new process to provide a centrally managed primary care

Freedom of information: levelling the playing field for private providers?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2013

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 provides increasing opportunities for private healthcare providers to provide NHS funded services. But many NHS

Access to clinical trial data - the irreversible process

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • February 25 2013

The issue of ensuring transparency of the activities of regulators is nothing new, with public bodies being required to observe Freedom of

Case update: Chhabra v West London Mental Health NHS Trust 2013 EWCA Civ 11

  • Kingsley Napley
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 4 2013

C was employed by the West London Mental Health NHS Trust (‘the Trust’) as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at Broadmoor Hospital. On 2 December