The North-West Evening Mail reports:
Confidential medical information including patient names, addresses and medical details were found abandoned in public places last year.
The private documents were handed in to health bosses after being located in a bin, a hospital car park and a recently-cleaned hospital apartment, a report has revealed.
A fourth serious data breach came to light when a patient found a handover sheet charting medical information within an envelope containing their discharge letter.
Leaders at the helm of the trust that runs Furness General Hospital claim the patients involved in the most serious incidents – those classified as level two – have been notified of the errors. The mistakes have spurred on executives at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust to employ a dedicated “privacy officer” whose role is to ensure patient information is protected.
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