Nine NHS trusts lose patient data
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Nine NHS Trusts admit losing patients' details in the latest missing data crisis to strike the government.
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Patients currently don't have any way to keep their personal information from being shared with third parties.
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The NHS is failing to offer sufficient out-of-hours GP care for severely ill patients, experts say.
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Doubts remain on the quality of private clinics seeing NHS patients in England, the health watchdog says.
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NHS to trace thousands of women given faulty pregnancy tests in UK hospitals.
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Patients in the UK's four nations are getting different services following devolution, say health chiefs.
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Over 100 hospital wards closed amid fears that infection will spread
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Health dept does u-turn The Information Commissioner has been told that patients will have the opportunity to refuse to have their details uploaded onto the new NHS medical records system. The news comes just weeks after the Department of Health refused patients that right.â¦
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Scathing judgement on junior doc debacle The Information Commissionerâs Office has slated the Department of Health over a data protection debacle that saw Doctorâs intimate personal details plastered over the web.â¦
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NHS to trace thousands of women who were given faulty pregnancy tests in British hospitals.
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Five more NHS trusts have been granted foundation status - but four others fail to make the grade.
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NHS trust hard drives at knock-down prices The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is trying to find out how one of its computers full of confidential medical information was sold on eBay.â¦
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Private treatment centres are taking work away from the NHS, according to health service bosses.
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Propose switch to decentralised, interoperable databases The Tory party has put forward a rescue plan for the NHS IT system in the wake of the latest government data losses, which were revealed over the weekend. Nine English NHS trusts have owned up to large scale losses of personal data, and although in most cases the nature of this data has yet to be revealed, City &amp; Hackney Primary Care Trust reportedly mislaid the names and addresses of 160,000 children.â¦
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Patients are waiting too long in many hospitals in England and are hidden from official figures, survey findings suggest.
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The government says the loss of patient records by NHS Trusts affects 168,000 people.
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Reforms of NHS dentistry mean some patients are getting substandard care, critics claim.