Mariam Issimdar and Nikki Fox report:
A hospital trust has apologized after private information on more than 22,000 patients was released in two breaches.
The leaks – in 2020 and 2021 – concerned maternity and cancer patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
Roland Sinker, chief executive of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said the breaches had “only recently come to light”.
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“Both were the result of mistakenly including patient information in Excel spreadsheets in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests.”
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