UK: Confidential hospital records lost by NHS trust

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http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Confidential-hospital-records-lost-by.5216361.jp

A SHAMED health worker from West Yorkshire has resigned after losing a
computer memory stick thought to contain confidential records on
thousands of patients.
The data, which would include patients' names, addresses, dates of
birth, hospital numbers and details of their medical treatment, is
thought to have been stored on a USB memory stick.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has written to all
patients who might be affected and has launched a full investigation.

The female administration worker breached policy by taking the device
off Trust premises and lost it in the library at Leeds Metropolitan
University on April 21.

It was reported missing to hospital bosses the next day and both the
trust and the university have tried but failed to locate the device.

Letters were sent out to 2,650 surgical patients whose details could
have been on the USB stick. And the trust has contacted some 3,000
other patients who featured in waiting list data which could also have
been stored on it.

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