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Data breach

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From:

NHS England Transformation Directorate: Information Governance Framework for Integrated Health and Care: Shared Care Records (Sep 2021)

NHS England

A duty on all organisations to report certain types of personal data breach to the relevant supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner's Office.

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