“Five organisations have received coroner’s letters highlighting the ‘disturbing’ death of a woman after paramedics were called to a care home.”
BBC News, 19th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor who worked at Aberystwyth’s Bronglais hospital has been struck off for six months after sending flirtatious texts messages.”
BBC News, 10th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The UK’s data protection watchdog has highlighted concerns it has with a new information-sharing initiative that has begun operating in the health sector in England.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Public health bodies in the UK could be compelled to open themselves up to a
data protection audit by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under new
plans outlined by the Government.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th March 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Private firms will soon be able to buy people’s medical and genetic data without their consent and, in certain cases, acquire personal information that might enable them to identify individuals.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Doctors will be able to provide medical records to patients who want them to
travel abroad for an assisted suicide without being struck off, new guidelines
make clear for the first time.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“This week David Cameron announced plans to introduce whole genome mapping for cancer patients and those with rare diseases within the NHS.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th December 2012
“The Australian radio DJs who made the hoax call to the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for acute morning sickness could have committed an offence under UK law, a leading barrister has said.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Spencer v General Osteopathic Council [2012] EWHC 3147 (Admin); [2012] WLR (D) 314
“The natural meaning of the language in the Osteopaths Act 1993 pointed to a threshold for the finding of ‘unacceptable professional conduct’ which there was no reason to distinguish from ‘misconduct’ in medical and dental legislation.”
WLR Daily, 8th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A health body has been fined £60,000 after two letters containing ‘confidential and highly sensitive personal data’ about a ‘vulnerable individual’ were sent to the wrong address.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Google is facing increasing pressure after the information commissioner launched an investigation into claims that it orchestrated a cover-up of its capture of emails, passwords and medical records of people in the UK.”
The Guardian, 12th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Welsh health board has become the first NHS body to be fined for breaching the Data Protection Act after it released sensitive data about a patient to the wrong person.”
BBC News, 30th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Department for Education v Molyneux: [2012] EWCA Civ 193; [2012] WLR (D) 50
“Regulations E33(2A) and E33(3) of the Teachers’ Pensions Regulations 1997, as amended, did not impose an obligation on the Secretary of State, when considering an application by a teacher for an early pension due to ill-health, made pursuant to regulation E4(4), to request further information from the teacher where the submitted medical evidence did not disclose the incapacity to the degree required but, rather, imposed an obligation on the teacher to produce all necessary medical evidence, with the Secretary of State holding a supplementary power to exercise as he thought fit.”
WLR Daily, 28th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The family of a British toddler who went missing 20 years ago have won a High Court battle to have his DNA released in a new attempt to trace him.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An NHS Trust has been ordered to pay a man £12,500 in compensation for breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA) after a nurse unlawfully accessed a man’s medical records, Plymouth County Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The General Dental Council was under no obligation to obtain an order of the court for permission to use and disclose dental records of patients for the purposes of investigating allegations of professional misconduct against a registered dentist even where the patients in question objected to the disclosure or did not consent to it.”
WLR Daily, 16th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Information commissioner Christopher Graham says fines of up to £500,000 could be imposed for Data Protection Act breaches.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Wounds to the body of weapons inspector David Kelly were ‘typical of self-inflicted injury’, according to previously secret medical documents released today. Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said he was publishing the documents on how Dr Kelly died ‘in the interests of maintaining public confidence in the inquiry into how Dr Kelly came by his death’. Lord Hutton, who conducted the inquiry into Dr Kelly’s death, ruled that the report should remain secret for 70 years, but there were a number of calls for another examination of the case.”
The Independent, 22nd October 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A rape victim who gave her baby away 20 years ago because she could not be sure if the child was her husband’s cannot now find out the truth because of adoption rules, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
