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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
Information Commissioners Office: data protection fining guidance
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published new Data Protection Fining Guidance
Podcast: Social media uses and abuses in primary care
Social media is a complex issue in employment law. What are the rules for doctors and other professionals? Find out in our latest podcast, hosted by Robert McCartney and Rachel Levine.
Fundamental standards of care – Regulation 12 – safe care and treatment
All CQC registered providers, from the biggest NHS foundation trust down to the smallest care home, GPs and dentists alike, are required to adhere to the CQC fundamental standards of care.
Supreme Court – Setback for representative claims
At Hempsons we have noted an increasing number of what might be considered trivial data breach claims being made against our clients. These claims follow a fairly standard pattern. An email containing minor personal information such as a name, age or address of an individual being sent to the wrong person by mistake. These minor biographical releases of information then become subject to claims for breach of UK GDPR.
Newsflash: Brexit, data transfers and local representatives
With the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area, both UK and EU data controllers are now having to grapple with cross-border data requirements where previously there were none. Chris Alderson discusses the issues
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.
ICO Guidance – COVID-19
Like other regulators, the ICO has issued guidance to reassure healthcare bodies and professionals that information governance issues should not be a barrier to effective information sharing to manage the response to the COVID-19 virus.
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.
Newsflash: European Court of Justice rule on data controller status
The European Court of Justice has produced a judgment which demonstrates the fluid nature of data controller status and that it is rarely a matter of simply binary choice. Chris Alderson provides a summary.
Hempsons Social Care Newsbrief Autumn/Winter 2018
Welcome to the latest edition of our Social Care Newsbrief.
Hempsons’ Charities and Social Enterprise Newsbrief: Autumn/Winter 2018
Welcome to our autumn/winter 2018 edition of Hempsons’ Charities and Social Enterprise Newsbrief.