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Patient details end up in general waste in Bolton - The Bolton News 22nd October 2009
"CONFIDENTIAL details including phone messages from patients and staff payslips were thrown away with general rubbish by health staff, NHS Bolton has admitted.
Last night senior managers at NHS Bolton, the borough’s primary care trust, apologised for the error. "
Private medical records for sale: Harley Street clinic patients' files outsourced for computer input - and end up on black market - Daily Mail 18th October 2009
"The confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals have been illegally sold to undercover investigators.
Hundreds of files containing intimate details of patients’ conditions, home addresses and dates of birth are being offered for as little as £4 each."
Crewe hospital apologises after patient records blunder - Crewe Chronicle 14th October 2009
"LEIGHTON Hospital has launched an investigation and apologised unreservedly after details of medical records of two patients were sent to the wrong person.
The blunder occurred when Trevor Millington requested the medical records of his father after he died in Leighton Hospital last month."
Patients' medical records found in skip - Manchester Evening News 19th August 2009
CONFIDENTIAL medical records for dozens of hospital patients were dumped in a skip - then turned up in a garden 20 miles away.
The records - register notes from the Accident and Emergency department at Macclesfield Hospital - included sensitive details of more than 60 patients' physical and mental states.
NHS trusts warned over loss of patient data - The Independent 23rd July 2009
Health trusts must take greater care with data after losses which included patients' information being left on a bus, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said.
The ICO found five NHS organisations had breached the Data Protection Act and warned health bodies about the importance of making information secure.
Information about 23 patients was on the Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust ward handover sheet which was found on a bus.
ProLife urges release of more data on abortion reasons - The Guardian 29th May 2009
Figures on terminations performed because of conditions such as cleft palate or webbed toes should be published, campaigners say
Government fights for numbers secrecy on abortions - The Independent 29th May 2009
Data on the number of abortions performed for conditions like club foot and cleft palate must remain secret, government officials will argue today.
Abortion numbers for disabilities should be kept secret: Government lawyers - The Telegraph 29th May 2009
Releasing data on the number of abortions performed for conditions like clubfoot and cleft palate may cause "mental distress or harm" to vulnerable women and must be kept secret, lawyers for the Department of Health have argued.
Government fights to keep abortions secret - The Telegraph 29th May 2009
Data on the number of abortions performed for conditions like club foot and cleft palate must remain secret, government officials will argue.
Abortions data must remain secret, Government to argue - The Telegraph 29th May 2009
Data on the number of late-term abortions performed for conditions like club foot and cleft palate must remain secret to protect the identities of those involved, a Freedom of Information appeal panel will hear.
Thousands of patient details lost - BBC Health News 29th May 2009
Thousands of patient details have been lost by the NHS in London following a series of data breaches, a report has revealed.
NHS London revealed that between April 2008 until April 2009 there were 76 "serious untoward incidents", which involved personal information of patients and staff being lost or stolen.
NHS patients given right to delete electronic record - The Guardian 26th May 2009
NHS patients will be allowed to delete electronic summaries of their treatment records from a new national medical database, the Guardian has learned.
The decision represents a significant concession in data protection policy following talks between health service officials and the Information Commissioners' Office (ICO).
Lost medical records force urgent security review - The Guardian 25th May 2009
Health department confirms 140 data breaches in the NHS, involving the records of tens of thousands of people
Thousands of NHS medical records lost - The Telegraph 25th May 2009
The personal medical records of tens of thousands of people were lost by the NHS, the Department of Health has confirmed.
NHS 'loses' thousands of medical records - The Independent 25th May 2009
The personal medical records of tens of thousands of people have been lost by the NHS in a series of grave data security leaks. Between January and April this year, 140 security breaches were reported within the NHS – more than the total number from inside central Government and all local authorities combined.
Jeremy Laurance: A disastrous attempt to drag the NHS into 21st century - The Independent 25th May 2009
The plan to computerise NHS patients records has been an unmitigated disaster. The £12bn programme is four years overdue and there are questions over whether the data is safe and the project can still deliver benefits.
NHS told to tighten data security - BBC Health News 25th May 2009
The information commissioner has told the NHS to improve its data security, after breaches involving the loss of thousands of personal medical records.
The independent data security watchdog says it has taken action against 14 NHS organisations in the last six months.
Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK's public databases, says report - The Guardian 23rd March 2009
A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID cards register, are fundamentally flawed and clearly breach European data protection and rights laws, according to a report published today.
Claiming to be the most comprehensive map so far of Britain's "database state", the report says that 11 of the 46 biggest schemes, including the national DNA database and the Contactpoint index of all children in England, should be given a "red light" and immediately scrapped or redesigned.
Quarter of UK's databases are 'illegal' - The Independent 23rd March 2009
One in four of the major government databases is almost certainly illegal and should be scrapped, a report says. The national DNA database, the proposed national identity database and the ContactPoint system, which will hold records of all children in England, are among the systems singled out for fundamental reform or abolition.
Researchers called for 11 systems assessed as "almost certainly illegal" under human rights or data protection law to be scrapped or substantially redesigned.
Big Brother files put children at risk and 'must be ditched' - Daily Mail 22nd March 2009
Big Brother-style databases of DNA records and personal details of millions of Britons held by the Government must be scrapped, a report says.
The study of almost 50 large-scale public sector computer systems highlights what it claims are serious breaches of human rights and data protection laws.
It warns that Britain is becoming a 'database state' because politicians are scared to step in to halt the spread of costly and flawed projects.
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