Patients at Royal Bolton Hospital aren’t the only U.K. patients to recently have their confidential information wind up in a street. Matt Mears of CapitalFM reports that information on 16 pediatric patients at Royal Oldham Hospital was found more than 40 miles away in Liverpool.
C’mon, folks, get it together. This type of lax security can be downright harmful to individuals and to the public’s confidence in trusting healthcare professionals with sensitive information.
h/t, DataLossDB.org