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Free cyber security resources for care providers

June 23, 2022
NHS Digital’s flagship security awareness toolkit, Keep I.T. Confidential, has been updated to help support social care organisations to improve security culture within their care settings. Free resources to be…
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ICO publishes new guidance for the use of CCTV for businesses

March 17, 2022
New guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been developed for organisations including care providers who use or may want to consider surveillance systems to collect and process personal…
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Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation (Last update: 04.12.20)

December 4, 2020
Introduction Obscuring or removing personal data from datasets allows information to be used more widely and may be particularly useful to the organisation in the areas of research and management…
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Transferring Personal Data (Last update 14.07.20)

July 14, 2020
  If an organisation wishes to transfer data to a third party, there are a number of factors to consider, particularly where the transfer is made to an organisation located…
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Processing Personal Data (Last update 14.07.20)

July 14, 2020
    Under both the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (“GDPR”) organisations must ensure there is a lawful basis for processing personal data. If…
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Rights of the Data Subject (Last update 14.07.20)

July 14, 2020
  The rights of the data subject are enhanced under GDPR. They are detailed below, together with some common myths and mythbusters. The first two rights must be automatically exercised…
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Six Principles of GDPR

February 3, 2020
In the last GDPR guidance note we discussed the key terms set out in GDPR. In this guidance note we’ll look at the 6 key principles of GDPR that apply…
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GDPR and the Care Sector – What’s New?

January 31, 2020
The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has turned its attention to the health and social care sector since the implementation of GDPR in May 2017. The ICO has conducted audits of…
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