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UK: NHS doctors, nurses and admin staff breached patients' confidentiality 802 times in the past 12 months

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dissent

Sophie Borland reports:

NHS staff are exposing highly sensitive information about patients up to five times a week by posting messages about them on Facebook, discussing illnesses in public or losing their medical files.

Figures show that in the past 12 months doctors, nurses and admin workers breached patients’ confidentiality some 802 times.

And nearly half of hospitals and NHS trusts admitted there had been at least one such incident in the past year.

Read more on the Daily Mail and kudos, kudos, kudos to Big Brother Watch for obtaining the information and getting the media to pay attention to it.

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1 thought on “UK: NHS doctors, nurses and admin staff breached patients' confidentiality 802 times in the past 12 months”

  1. Anonymous says:
    November 2, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    That is terrible. The patients should sue

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