Instant Messaging Apps
Dear Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
1. Does the Trust use (or allow) the use of instant messaging apps for the processing of patient identifiable data?
If yes
2. Which messaging app(s) do you use?
3. Has a DPIA been completed? (if yes please include a copy in your response)
4. Has a risk assessment been completed? (if yes please include a copy in your response)
5. Please include any policies or SOPs that detail how the apps are used
For the avoidance of doubt the term processing matches the European Commission definition of "any activity that includes the collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction of personal data."
Instant messaging apps may include WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram, Hospify or any similar service.
Yours faithfully,
Samuel Weller
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 18 February 2020, this is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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Kind regards
Catherine
Catherine Wright |Freedom of Information Officer | Information Governance ||Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Rothwell Road, Kettering. NN16 8UZ | Tel: 01536 49000
Dear Samuel
Please see the attached response to your FOI request. Please accept our sincere apologies for the unfortunate delay.
Kind regards
Catherine
Catherine Wright |Freedom of Information Officer | Information Governance ||Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Rothwell Road, Kettering. NN16 8UZ
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