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As part of the campaign, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have produced new resources and messaging to help staff ‘stop the ripple effect’ and protect data. Protecting personal data is about protecting people. It may have been an admin error, but the real life experiences of people include having to leaving jobs, homes or schools.

Our winter/resilience plan is keeping patients well in the community and taking pressure off the wider health and care system. Despite the Christmas and New Year period being challenging, there was very little disruption to patients and overall, it was an incredibly positive outcome under such difficult conditions.

Rosie and I wanted to thank everyone for their unwavering dedication and hard work during this particularly challenging period. The winter season invariably brings a significant increase in demand for NHS services which is compounded by the awful adverse weather conditions. Together with the heightened local system pressures, this period has indeed been particularly challenging.

Some of you may have received a letter from Payroll explaining that the payroll calculations for the back pay for bank staff annual leave back pay for the period from April 2024 to September 2024 were based on 2023 data.

The Information Commissioner’s Office Ripple Effect campaign aims to raise awareness of the significant impact that data breaches can have on individuals and communities. Data protection is about safeguarding individuals, not just managing systems. It may have been an admin error, but nationally some patients and service users have had to leave home as a result.