The Bolton News reports that hospital notes with 25 patients’ names, age, medical history, specialist information, mobility, dietary requirement, hygiene, home circumstances and discharge plan were found in a street.
The breach itself would be disturbing enough, but the citizen who found the documents experienced problems trying to report the breach – an issue to which I am keenly attuned:
“I rang the hospital and asked to speak to the person in charge and I was cut off. I rang back and said I had found confidential information and I was cut off again.
According to the paper, this was the third breach involving the hospital, but by my count, they’ve had even more breaches than that. This will be the seventh breach recorded for them in DataLossDB.org.