Nosy neighbours are bad enough, but this is worse than peering through the net curtains. Health Service Journal (June 26) reports that trusts do not punish staff caught snooping on patients’ records.
Sian Thomas, the acting joint director of NHS Employers, told the NHS Confederation’s annual conference that there was evidence that trusts around the country were letting staff off the hook for breaking data privacy rules. In many cases there had been no consequences for the people involved – and this was particularly true for doctors.
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