GRG blog

Final Report – Cass Review As a piece of history worth reviewing and forming your own views.

Have seen a few cases in the last few months where someone contacts their GP for a prescription or an appointment only to be told that they have been deregistered as the Practice had been told they had moved. It has happened twice in the last 12 months to the same person. It is happening

The ICO continues to argue that it will not fine public sector organisations for major data breaches and that reputational damage will be a driver for improvement. As many people are saying, the problem is that if you have no choice but to use that organisation then they could lose all your data and their

I have to deal with Subject Access Requests (SAR) from members of staff across NHS organisations – where you receive one, you generally know they have issues with their employer. You also know that you are likely to receive a separate Freedom of Information Request (FOI) asking for copies of policies, procedures, certain decision making

Recognising who designed this:

Not the royal family as some people believe but those people whose ways of managing things border on bullying, undermining people and generally have a world view that people or the organisation they work for exist to promote them. Credit to the person that wrote this and making things so clear/I will be using every

…Environmental Information Regulations, the misunderstood cousin to the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). Coming out of the FOI24 conference I think a lot of people are going to try and understand them more. especially where the Information Commissioner is trying to get improvements in understanding across the public sector. EIR and FOI requests are not

…not really and that is why a lot of research has to have ethics approval. Don’t get me wrong, research should be pushing the boundaries but history has shown that what may be acceptable research to some as just “pure science” may challenge the moral and ethical values of others. That is why when dealing

Being a bit cynical quoting something from the Bible (no – I’m not religious) but it does state what seems to be happening at the moment. People are forgetting/not learning the basics, trying to reinvent the wheel, and ignoring lessons learned because they are an inconvenient truth. The NHSE push towards trying to simplify IG

Just proves that politics says one thing, having some things supported by the law means that you benefit, even where you disagreed with the people who made it law. I’m not sure whether they are going to win their case but the problems they have faced has raised the profile of data protection.