I am currently the Head of Legal Services / Information Governance and Data Protection Officer for Birmingham Community Healthcare Foundation Trust, a large NHS community Trust providing healthcare services to patients across the West Midlands. As an experienced in-house solicitor and certified DPO I advise and support the Trust’s senior leadership team in delivering regulatory compliance across the regulatory landscape, including the CQC and the ICO, and helping the Trust work towards its wider strategic aims and objectives. As a data protection expert within the healthcare sector, protecting sensitive personal data requires a variety of commercial skills on a daily basis, from negotiating system-wide agreements on data sharing to undertaking forensic data mapping exercises all within a kaleidoscope of legislative challenges and permutations both locally and globally. Keeping up is the fun part...