NHS staff reprimanded for sharing patient details on WhatsApp
NHS Lanarkshire staff have been reprimanded for sharing patient details on WhatsApp. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched an investigation following the data breach after it was found that personal information had been shared in an unauthorised group chat over the course of two years. The ICO found that 26 members of staff had shared access to patients' names, numbers and addresses, as well as clinical information on multiple occasions between April 2020 and April 2022. The messaging app was adopted as a form of communication during the pandemic but had not been approved for pr...