Catherine Shanahan reports:
Documents with sensitive patient data identifying children and adults, details of surgical procedures, and reasons for missing appointments have been found on a busy city-centre street in Cork.
The highly personalised information relating to patients attending Cork University Hospital (CUH) for plastic surgery was discovered by Luke Field, a Labour Party local election candidate in Cork City South Central.
Children are readily identifiable because dates of birth are included, as well as references to different children’s wards at CUH, including Ladybird, Seahorse, and Puffin.
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