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UK: Hull man guilty of snooping on hundreds of medical records

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Dissent

John Oates reports the follow-up to a breach previously covered on this site.

A Hull man has been given a suspended sentence for looking at hundreds of women’s medical records.

Dale Trever, 22, was working for Hull Primary Care Trust as a “care data quality facilitator” when he accessed medical records of 413 female patients. The court was told he accessed records 597 times.

[…]

Trever pleaded guilty to seven counts of breaking the Computer Misuse Act and said he’d acted out of idle curiousity.

He was sentenced to six months, suspended for two years.

Read more in The Register.

And this sentence will really serve deterrent purposes for those considering snooping in patient records… how?!

Note:  I understand from subsequent reading that any conviction under this statute is fairly rare in the U.K., but if that’s the case, then throwing in some jail time would be even more helpful, no? Is this supposed to be “let this be a warning to others?”

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