Fax?
FAX ????
Any company that still uses those things (for reasons other than communicating with other backward companies) is obvioulsy never gonna get the hang of that fancy newfangled data protection and security malarky
The taxpayer-backed NHS has suffered another fine from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for outing patients' private information to the wrong people. The Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust was slapped with a £90,000 ($142,000) penalty after the "serious breach of the Data Protection Act" that saw the …
FFS.
NHS, stop dong silly things with data.
ICO, stop fining the population for the NHS' error.
I know I say this on each of these stories, but it's getting silly now.
I still can't rememebr a private company that El Reg has reported being fined by the ICO, it's always either a local authority or the NHS.
My Trust faxes all letters to GPs - albeit automagically to pre-programmed numbers. In the great scheme of things, probably reasonably safe, and quick.
What is annoying is the way that Trusts which have adopted NHS.net email forbid all patient identifiable email to nhs.uk addresses. And the fact that although GPs get my email address on all my clinic letters, and can email me, there's no way in which I can email GPs about my patients - I have to dictate letters to them which are transcribed and faxed (see above).
Quite a few other IT things are annoying too. But other things are improving.