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A wrong diagnosis, incorrect allergy, mistaken address or information belonging to another patient can remain in a medical record long after the original mistake. Patients have a right to challenge factual inaccuracies, but correcting a medical record does not
ASOS says names and contact details may have been accessed after an unauthorised notification was sent through its app. The NCSC is advising every ASOS customer to assume they are affected, while passwords and payment-card information are not currently believe
HR should help workplace problems move towards a fair, lawful decision. But when procedure becomes containment, employees can experience the function as a dam: absorbing grievances, controlling information and building bureaucracy while the underlying pressure
Adobe’s “annual, billed monthly” plans can look like ordinary monthly subscriptions, but cancelling can trigger a charge equal to 50% of the remaining annual cost. We examine what the contract says, what consumer law says and what customers can do.
Multi-gigabit broadband is becoming increasingly common, with providers selling connections capable of well over 1Gbps. But there is something the headline numbers do not always make obvious: your broadband connection can be delivering exactly what was promise
Employers have considerable control over when annual leave is taken, but that control is not unlimited. Christmas leave, childcare, emergencies, medical appointments and disability-related absences can all engage different legal rights. Describing everything a
The deadline for most employment tribunal claims increases to six months minus one day from 1 October. The change depends on when the relevant workplace event happened, so an existing dispute does not automatically gain another three months.
The most useful protection is often the one nobody mentioned at the checkout, in the meeting room or at the airport. These seven rights can turn a request for help into a demand for a remedy the law already provides.
NHS England has told trusts to act immediately when staff are suspected of accessing patient records without a legitimate reason. But the crackdown raises another question: how would a patient know that somebody had looked?
The UK’s information rights regulator moves to a board-led structure on 30 September. It will still be known as the ICO, and its existing regulatory work continues.