Residents of the Claudelands area of Hamilton East are being urged to contact Waikato Hospital if they find any medical referral letters in their rubbish.
Waikato District Health Board has launched an investigation into how the letters ended up in rubbish, due for collection near the Claudelands Bridge, on Christmas Eve.
Health Waikato chief operating officer Jan Adams said the most important thing now was to recover the radiology referral letters to ensure everything “clinically” within them had been done.
The letters contain a patient’s name, address and national health number. Typically they also have a doctor’s name as the referrer.
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