Outrage as hospital loses 2,000 records

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Outrage-hospital-loses-2-000-records/article-1906677-detail/article.html

Outrage as hospital loses 2,000 records
Friday, March 12, 2010, 09:20

CONFIDENTIAL health records belonging to 2,000 physiotherapy patients have 
been lost.

Security is expected to be tightened at the Haywood Hospital in Burslem 
after the sensitive documents vanished.

The Haywood Hospital, pictured below, owned and managed by NHS 
Stoke-on-Trent, provides rehabilitation, podiatry and other therapy 
services. The missing records relate to patients treated in or before 
2006.

Hospital managers have apologised.

A NHS spokesman said: "An investigation has been launched after it came to 
our attention that approximately 2,000 patients' records cannot be 
located.

"We are investigating the possibility of records having been destroyed 
under confidential conditions, in error."

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Hospital Loses 2,000 Patient Records
By Ian Cuddy | Published: 12 March 2010: 10:14 am

The medical records of around 2,000 NHS patients in Stoke-on-Trent have 
been lost.

The missing records are those of patients who received physiotherapy 
treatment at the Haywood Hospital, part of NHS Stoke on Trent, in or 
before 2006.  The hospital has apologised to patients for the security 
breach. It said in a statement:

     .We are investigating the possibility of records having been destroyed 
under confidential conditions, in error. Procedures have already been 
tightened and steps are in place to ensure this does not happen again..

Source: The Sentinel, 12 March 2010.


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