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Confidential patient data lost on Teesdale street
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Confidential patient data lost on Teesdale street
Confidential patient data lost on Teesdale street
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Teesdale Mercury
Sep 16, 2008
TEESDALE is at the centre of the latest data loss scandal after a memory
stick containing information on hundreds of NHS mental health patients
was found by a member of the public in a Barnard Castle street.
The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Trust, whose jurisdiction Teesdale falls
within, said the =E2=80=98serious breach of patient confidentiality=E2=80=99 happened
after a computer technician, who had been upgrading PCs in Teesdale,
failed to delete the information from the portable stick.
Early investigations into the security breach also unveiled that other
members of staff at the trust had stored confidential data on their hard
drives, contravening trust policies on information security.
The Mercury learned of the latest government blunder after one of the
patients=E2=80=99 whose information had been on the stick contacted the
newspaper.
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