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Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and the NHS 10-Year Plan
Find out about the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and the challenges of its implementation within healthcare systems.
Data (Use and Access) Bill 2025 Passed by Parliament
The Data (Use and Access) Bill 2025 has been successfully passed through Parliament as of 11 June 2025.
Overview of the Data (Use and Access) Bill 2024-25
Overview of the Data (Use and Access) Bill 2024-25 and information standards for the NHS and IT providers, who are providing IT systems to the health and social care sector
Fall-out of failure to look after data
New Data Protection Fining Guidance has been published by The Information Commissioners Office. Philippa Doyle explains what this means for independent healthcare providers and offers some practical take-away tips.
ICO guidance: handling worker health data
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance on the handling of worker health data with the aim of providing advice and examples of good practice.
Commercial secrets and the public sector
Many commercial contracts have provisions on confidentiality. Many contracts include them as a matter of course, as they have become standard “boilerplates”
ICO tool kit for handling FOI requests
The ICO has launched an online self assessment tool kit to help public authorities get back on track in handling FOI requests.
Digital Newsbrief: Summer 2020
Hempsons’ Digital Newsbrief, providing an update on a range of commercial and legal issues as well as a focus on current clients of Hempsons.
Fit for purpose? What the NHS needs to know about big data and health technology
Steps are now being taken centrally to adopt a co-ordinated approach to using NHS data and new technologies to unlock improvements in health care.
Hempsons’ Healthcare Newsbrief
Welcome to our Autumn/Winter 2019/2020 edition of Hempsons’ Healthcare Newsbrief.
Hempsons’ Healthcare Newsbrief 2018
Welcome to this autumn edition of Hempsons’ Healthcare Newsbrief. It has been a busy few months for the NHS in the legal system with some ground-breaking decisions on key areas such as withdrawing clinically-assisted nutrition and hydration, fitness to practice and procurement.
Big Data, Health Data
How to unlock the potential of health data within a compliant information governance framework.
Is your dental practice ready for GDPR?
The current law governing the use of personal data in the UK is the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”). The law will change on 25 May 2018 when the European General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”) will come into effect.
GDPR How it affects health and social care businesses
Keeping confidential information about staff and patients secure is a responsibility businesses operating in the health and social care sectors have taken seriously for a long time. But the requirements are about to increase. From May 2018, organisations will need to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an EU regulation.