... and awareness of obligations under data protection legislation improved following intervention, breaches in compliance still remained. Originality/value This is the first such audit in Ireland on the provision of educational training in the area of data protection legislation to medical students...

... on a similar study in the NHS UK, was utilised to answer the research questions of this study. Data were collected in eight acute hospitals in the Health Services Executive (HSE) regions in Ireland. Two hospitals were selected from each of the four regions and nursing staff on three wards within each hospital...