GB NHS Trusts 2011 Technical Error (Q10918)
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A data breach risk event
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GB NHS Trusts 2011 Technical Error
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A data breach risk event
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January 2011
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he NHS has admitted thousands of patients may have been affected by the loss of records that went undelivered over a period of five years Thousands of patients may have been put at risk by the loss of more than half a million NHS records that went undelivered over a period of five years. The NHS has acknowledged that it is investigating an estimated 2,500 cases in which patients may have been adversely affected by the undelivered documents, which included test results for diseases including cancer and treatment plans. In total 708,000 pieces of correspondence were mistakenly stored in a warehouse instead of being sent to patients GPs or filed in their records, with about 200,000 of those being temporary change-of-address forms. The documents were handled by a mail redirection company hire (English)
