NHS Staff Posted Patient Information on Facebook

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/692764/nhs-staff-posted-patient-information-on-facebook

By Anh Nguyen
CSO
October 29, 2011

NHS staff have been breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) by posting 
confidential patient details and photographs on Facebook, a report has 
found.

This was one of the ways that patient medical records were compromised 
by staff at NHS trusts across the country between July 2008 and July 
2011. There were at least 806 separate data breaches at 152 NHS trusts 
during the period.

The report from civil liberties campaigners Big Brother Watch, based on 
information gathered from Freedom of Information (FOI) Act requests, 
showed that there were 23 incidents of patient information being posted 
on social networking sites such as Facebook.

In one case, a medical employee at the Nottingham University Hospital 
NHS Trust posted a picture of a patient on Facebook, which led to their 
dismissal. This employee was one of 102 who were sacked after a data 
breach incident.

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