Are rumours of an end to GDPR in the UK good news for Health and Social Care?
The General Data Protection Regulations implemented when the UK was a member of the EU are seen by many as an example of that body’s excessive regulation of business activity and lead to unnecessary bureaucracy when collecting, storing and utilising personal data....
How care homes are dealing with COVID-19
No-one could have failed to notice the huge impact that the current pandemic has had on the UK Care Home sector. On the negative side, we have seen reports of the sad deaths of both residents and staff as additional costs have piled up with the requirement to avoid...
Innovation in Social Care
We live in unprecedented times where we are all experiencing massive disruption to our personal lives, be that access to services, restrictions on travel or simply limiting our freedoms and choices. Few people welcome disruption, yet for businesses, being disruptive...
Brexit and GDPR – what you need to know
Most organisations work with Personal Data in one form or another and will have their Privacy Policy and Notices in place. Many of these are likely to refer to ‘EU GDPR’, this will need to be amended to ‘UK GDPR’ as from 21st January 2021 as the UK is now outside the...