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St George's healthcare trust collaborates with eight trusts to purchase ICT including electronic patient record and administration systems St George's healthcare trust is leading eight other London trusts in setting up a framework contract worth between £250m and £400m. The deal will provide an electronic patient record (EPR) system, a patient administration system (PAS), a clinical portal and hosting services. The four-year framework, advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union, says that the EPR/PAS solution will cover a full range of administrative and clinical functional...

Connecting for Health guidance says NHS staff must not use tablet devices 'out of the box' or to store patient data NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has issued guidance to staff warning them not to use tablet devices to store sensitive patient data. In a "good practice guidance" document, CfH says the use of tablets in commercial organisations is increasing and there is pressure for NHS organisations to follow suit. However it tells staff that these devices are inherently less secure than more traditional technology. The financial cost and the risk of device theft or data loss...

One in eight breaches reported by health service organisations resulted in staff dismissal Figures released to the privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch show that 806 separate incidents involving patient medical records being compromised took place at 152 NHS trusts between July 2008 and July 2011. The group, which obtained data from the majority of NHS organisations in the UK, found that breaches included 23 incidents of patient information being posted on social networking sites by staff, 129 separate instances of NHS employees looking up details of colleagues and family members and 57 incidents...

NHS body implements encryption after losing disc with data on 1.6 million people An NHS trust has told patients that it is acting to improve its data handline practices after a rebuke from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for losing a CD containing details on 1.6 million people. Chief executive of NHS Kent and Medway Ann Sutton said that information is now more secure following the implementation of encryption systems to replace the use of floppy discs and CDs. Last week the trust was handed an undertaking by the information watchdog after sending the personal information to a landfill...

Department of Health says no patient data has been accessed, but says that local website administrators have been affected The Department of Health has confirmed that a group of hackers has found information online affecting the security of NHS websites. A departmental spokesman said: "This is a local issue affecting a very small number of website administrators. No patient information has been compromised. No national NHS information systems have been affected. "The department has issued guidance to the local NHS about how to protect and secure all their information assets." A group...