Meanwhile, over in the UK:
The government has blocked proposals for it to collect and publish data on all NHS security breaches, GP can reveal.In a letter to ministers, written last year and released under the Freedom of Information Act, DoH director of IT implementation Richard Jeavons argued that disciplining offences was the ‘responsibility of individual organisations’.
‘Officials advise against starting a new national data collection where we may be required to publish, justify and explain the action taken,’ he wrote.
Instead, he proposed requiring NHS bodies to publish such details in their annual reports.
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