NHS Lanarkshire has been reprimanded by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after findings that staff had been sharing patients’ personal data over WhatsApp for a two-year period.
Between April 2020 and April 2022, patients’ data was added over 500 times in a message group that 26 staff members
“Patient data is highly
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