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NHS Blood and Transplant

Security

Authority

ICO

Country

United Kingdom

Date Issued

March 2, 2023

Industry

Healthcare

Summary

NHS Blood and Transplant received a reprimand from the ICO for inadvertently deploying untested development code into a live transplant matching system in August 2019, which could have compromised patient data integrity and organ allocation processes. The organization failed to implement adequate security controls and testing procedures before code deployment.

Violation Types

SecurityData ProcessingRisk Assessment

Articles Violated

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