{"id":584270,"date":"2026-08-14T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584270\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:24:13","slug":"nhs-blood-and-transplant-investigate-data-breach-due-to-pager-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584270\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Blood and Transplant investigate data breach due to pager use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other pager users were the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), which sent messages with details for crews such as addresses, patient ages, and medical information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both services said the messages did not include patients&#8217; names, while NWAS said pagers had now been fully withdrawn and for NIAS largely withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health and social care in Northern Ireland is a devolved matter, and therefore the responsibility of the Department of Health NI, rather than the UK Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has approached Department of Health NI for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for NIAS said it &#8220;will always recognise best practice across the UK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Information Commissioner Office spokesperson said: &#8220;People&#8217;s medical data is highly sensitive information, not only do people expect it to be handled carefully and securely, organisations also have a responsibility under the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;NHS Blood and Transplant reported an incident to us and we are making inquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Health and Social Care said the NHS has &#8220;made progress in replacing outdated technology and is working to ensure staff have access to secure, reliable digital tools that support safe, high-quality patient care&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other pager users were the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), which sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-584270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}