Thousands of patients’ data exposed in NHS Scotland data breaches

Everyone’s medical history and records should be confidential and secure in the hands of the NHS. But there have been serious privacy breaches resulting in dozens of staff being disciplined and police investigations.

Tony Blair

4 articles

Stephen Flynn at Prime Ministers Questions

Politics and power

Claim Stephen Flynn held poppy wreath upside down is False

Remembrance Sunday fell last weekend, and events were held across the UK marking the end of the First World War

Ferret Journalists Nov 14, 2023

Fact Checks

Nigel Farage claim of ‘EU Human Rights Act’ is False

Repealing the Human Rights Act was one of the key pledges made by the Conservatives and the UK Independence Party

Ferret Journalists Feb 18, 2021

Politics and power

Sturgeon’s claim that SNP scrapped tuition fees is Mostly True

The issue of tuition fees has been in the spotlight recently as Jeremy Corbyn indicated that a Labour government would

Ferret Journalists Aug 6, 2017

Politics and power

Revealed: slow progress of Scotland’s air gun licence scheme

Victims of air rifles have criticised the speed of the Scottish Government’s air gun licence scheme after a Ferret

Peter Geoghegan, John Jack Oct 2, 2016

Children in care die at twice the rate of others. Why are so few of their deaths reviewed?

Thousands of patients’ data exposed in NHS Scotland data breaches

Anti-immigration activists from England due to travel to Glasgow for protest, claims "patriot" group

Tony Blair

Claim Stephen Flynn held poppy wreath upside down is False

Nigel Farage claim of ‘EU Human Rights Act’ is False

Sturgeon’s claim that SNP scrapped tuition fees is Mostly True

Revealed: slow progress of Scotland’s air gun licence scheme