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Privacy breach at Bay of Plenty District Health Board

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Dissent

Kiri Gillespie reports that the Bay of Plenty District Health Board has fired an employee for snooping in 48 patients’ files and then casually discussing the cases with co-workers. Read more in the New Zealand Herald.

In related coverage, Phillipa Yalden reports that the employee is a 66-year-old woman who was employed at Tauranga Hospital and that it was a co-worker who sounded the alarm that led to the investigation. That employee is not satisfied with how long it took to deal with her concern:

“I wrote to the privacy commissioner, I wrote to the CEO Phil Cammish telling them what was going on and nothing was done.”

[BOP DHB general manager of governance and quality and privacy officer Gail Bingham] says the audit began as soon as she was made aware.

Read more on SunLive.


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