It's fundamental to healthcare that the person receiving treatment agrees to receive it. But is that the case with DeepMind's access to NHS patient data?

Exclusive Nearly 2.7 TB of sensitive data — 31.5 million invoices, contracts, HIPPA patient consent forms, and other business documents regarding numerous companies across industries — has ...

The patients will be fast-tracked onto trials of a new cancer vaccine, called iSCIB1+ (ImmunoBody), which works by boosting the immune system's response ...

NHS is allegedly sharing patient information on Facebook. The health organization is accused of using a covert tracking tool on its official website.

The coalition government has confirmed it will not scrap controversial Summary Care Records, in spite of both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats having made pre-election pledges to ditch them ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been caught up in an astonishing NHS blunder that saw organs being taken from dead patients and used without their consent. Donors who expressly stated they ...

TRICHY: For long, the absence of a uniform template for getting patient consent for medical treatment has been causing confusion among doctors.

The NHS defines the position as a “senior person responsible for protecting the confidentiality of patient and service-user information and enabling appropriate information-sharing”.

NHS staff routinely forged abortion consent forms When health care inspectors mounted a series of raids on abortion clinics, they discovered that doctors had systematically broken strict rules.

Two patients at a troubled hospital reportedly came close to going under the knife without giving proper consent. One of the patients at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales was already under ...

Doctors carrying out abortions in hospitals have been routinely breaking the law by faking consent forms The Care Quality Commission found 14 NHS trusts were letting medics sign off documents ...