Norfolk's largest hospital was forced to pay out almost £47,000 in compensation following data breaches, it has emerged. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital paid £46,875 to the victims of five separate data breaches between 2020 and 2023. The figure is the second largest of any NHS trust in the country - according to newly published statistics.
Of the five breaches, four involved data belonging to patients and resulted in pay-offs of £26,875 combined. A fifth data breach saw a single claim of £20,000 made against the trust, which a spokeswoman said was down to a "contractual issue". The spokeswoman said: "We follow NHS requirements as set out by the NHS data security and protection toolkit, of which we are compliant.
"We take our use of data extremely seriously and have a well-established mandatory approach to information governance training for all our staff - without exception. "Any breach is fully investigated so that lessons can be learned." The figures were released following a Freedom of Information request from personal injury solicitors firm Legal Expert - which found that nationwide, NHS trusts had paid out £1.
5m in data breach claims since 2021. Eleanor Coleman, a data breach specialist from the firm, said a 21pc increase in breaches between 2022 and 2023 was "worrying". A spokesman for NHS England said: "Organisations that have access to NHS data and systems are required to practise and provide evidence of good data security so that personal informatio.
