NHS: Data Protection
(asked on 9th March 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many notifications NHS England has received under section 4.1.8 of the Data Sharing Framework version 2.03, or equivalent textual clauses in earlier versions, in (1) 2023, (2) 2024, (3) 2025, and (4) 2026.
This question was answered on 23rd March 2026
Since 2023, NHS England has received the following number of data breach notifications from data recipients under section 4.1.8 of the Data Sharing Framework:
- from March 2023, when NHS Digital and NHS England merged, to December 2023 there were zero;
- in 2024 there were three;
- in 2025 there were five; and
- in 2026 there were two.