Chris Hastings, Maurice Chittenden and Nyta Mann report: The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have attacked the Labour Party for sending “alarmist” literature to cancer patients, and called for an inquiry into whether NHS databases had been used to identify recipients. The row erupted after Labour sent cancer patients mailshots saying that their lives may…
Category: Health Data
UK: Organs removed without consent after IT blunder
Patrick Hennessy and Laura Donnelly report: The records of 800,000 people were affected by an error that meant their wishes about the use of their organs after death were wrongly recorded. An investigation has found that 45 of those for whom wrong records were stored have since died – and in approximately 20 cases organs…
Six face charges in ID theft ring
From the Monterey County Herald: Six people have been charged with using stolen identities to run up tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges in the San Francisco Bay Area. The defendants were arraigned Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. They did not enter pleas. The state Attorney General’s Office says the defendants…
VIHA files sent to wrong address
Rob Shaw reports: The Vancouver Island Health Authority has admitted it accidentally mailed the confidential health records of 13 clients to the wrong address, and didn’t know the files were missing until people started to complain. The records, which contained mental and physical evaluations of clients, were supposed to go into the inter-office mail system…
Nursing home patient information found in residents' yards
Amber Parcher reports: Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services is looking into how numerous Wheaton nursing home papers containing sensitive patient information have made their way into nearby neighbors’ yards over the past few months. Last month, the county sent a nursing home inspector to investigate complaints from residents in the Wheaton Regional…
Nursing home patient information found in residents’ yards
Amber Parcher reports: Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services is looking into how numerous Wheaton nursing home papers containing sensitive patient information have made their way into nearby neighbors’ yards over the past few months. Last month, the county sent a nursing home inspector to investigate complaints from residents in the Wheaton Regional…