National Health System (NHS) organizations in the UK have accounted for more than once quarter of the data security breaches reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). If this keeps up the ICO could become a profit center with their new powers, approved in April, to impose penalties up to £500,000 on offending organizations.
The ICO issued a press release on June 15 announcing Poor Data Security in the NHS. NHS Stock-on-Trent and Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trusts were the latest NHS bodies found in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA). Mick Gorrill, Head of Enforcement at the ICO was quoted “Everyone makes mistakes, but regrettably there are far too many within the NHS.” He went on to add “We have taken a number of steps to explain the importance of personal data to NHS bodies and help them comply with the law.”
But wait a sec, just yesterday, July 14, there was another press release announcing Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust found in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA). Did the folks at Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust not get the message from the ICO?
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