The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is issuing further warnings to NHS bodies about the importance of data security, after finding five more NHS organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act. In one case, a ward hand-over sheet containing notes about patients’ health was left on a bus. The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust reported the loss of an unencrypted compact disk initially thought to contain medical treatment details of 20,000 patients from the hospital’s cardiology department. The Trust has since reported to the ICO that it cannot be precise about the information contained on the disk.
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NHS puts records at risk
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