Public sector bodies, particularly hospitals, could face large fines if they do not take action to ensure their data protection upholds human rights laws, a law firm has warned.
Ward Hadaway cited a recent case in Finland, in which a hospital was fined after its records system was deemed insufficiently robust to prevent personal details being accessed, and said a UK court was likely to reach the same decision.
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A judge has ruled a clinical commissioning group can award a £320m contract to its local acute trust despite an ongoing dispute from a large private provider.
A trust has reached an out-of-court settlement with a wrongly excluded senior surgeon and apologised for the “distress” the legal proceedings had caused her.
A trust chief executive has been fined after her organisation failed to disclose serious incident investigations to a coroner.
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