Campaigners claim that UK's track and trace scheme broke data protection laws, but experts say non-compliance understandable considering unprecedented emergency
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NHS Teams Up With Alexa For Health Advice
Doctor Alexa? NHS to provide health advice via Amazon's AI-driven Alexa personal assistant
Post WannaCry, NHS Seeks New Cyber-Security Deputy
Government seeks candidate to lead £200m programme to sharpen cyber security resilience of the NHS
Terrafix To Provide NHS With In-Ambulance Mobile Data Systems
An £8.1m deal is to see the British mobile computing firm supply technology for communications between ambulances and control rooms
NHS ‘Exemplar’ Trusts To Lead Digital Transformation
Government promises up to £10 million for 12 trusts to further develop digital expertise and pass it on to the rest of the NHS
English GPs To Start Sharing Anonymised Patient Data
The Department of Health hopes the scheme, starting in March, will help inform better choices
NHS Claws Back What It Can From CSC, As NPfIT Ends
The government claims £1 billion savings as parts of NPfIT live on
Giant NHS Project NPfIT Lives Beyond The Grave
CSC may still get paid to implement Lorenzo records system
NHS To Publish Anonymised Patient Data
The long-delayed Department of Health information strategy plans to release anonymised patient data to researchers, industry and the public
ICO To Investigate Civil Service Data Breach Claims
Channel 4 documentary finds 25 confidentiality breaches per week at the Department for Work and Pensions
UK Government To Dismantle NHS IT Programme
The world's largest public sector IT project has officially failed, but experts say nothing has changed
Health Department Lost Hundreds Of Laptops
More than 250 laptops have gone missing from the DoH over the last 10 years - many of them unencrypted