NHS having issues with disposing paper records....BD
PATIENTS and leading politicians have hit out health bosses over the latest medical records blunder. It is the third time medical data has been lost in Bolton in just four months. "If a private company continued to have breaches of this significance then I am sure they would have been prosecuted by now under the provisions of the Data Protection Act."
Personal information relating to 3,200 patients was been dumped at a landfill site instead of being burned or shredded. It is the third time medical data has been lost in Bolton in just four months.
Details of 300 seriously ill patients who received house calls from the out-of-hours service in December and January were included in the records sent to a landfill site.
Patients Hit Out Over Medical Records Blunder (from The Bolton News)
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