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UK: Outrage as hospital loses 2,000 records

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Dissent

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.

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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.”

Read more in The Sentinel.

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