I said about my local NHS trust losing data before when a laptop was stolen, well it would appear that the NHS is like the rest of the government leaking data.
New Labour are in charge, they hold the responsibility to protect peoples information.
From The Sun.
NHS watchdogs fear the loss of patients’ medical records could be far more widely spread than was admitted yesterday.
Ten trusts have owned up to mislaying 168,000 patients’ files in the latest in a series of public sector data blunders.
Last night Joyce Robins, of support group Patient Care, said: “I think it’s the tip of the iceberg because there is such carelessness within the NHS. It’s always impossible to hold anyone to account.”
And she warned the lost details could include patients’ most personal secrets. She said: “Health records can have anything from your ex-directory phone number to your HIV status.”
In one case, a disc with the details of 160,000 children was lost in the post by City and Hackney Primary Care Trust in East London.
A further 8,000 files have been lost by other authorities including Bolton Royal Hospital, Sutton and Merton PCT, Sefton Merseyside PCT, Mid-Essex Care Trust, Gloucester Partnership Foundation Trust, and Norfolk and Norwich.
The East and North Hertfordshire Trust reported a loss but has since found the missing data.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust blundered twice — meaning there have been ten breaches in total.
A Department of Health spokesman said the disc containing the children’s details was encrypted and that only a small proportion of the other files involved clinical data.
He said: “There is no evidence of any data falling into the wrong hands.”
**However there is also -as the data is "lost" also no evidence that this has not fallen into the wrong hands, it is impossible to claim that as they do not know where the data is due to their losing it in the first place.
Last night public health minister Dawn Primarolo said the department was working to resolve the matter quickly.
It is the latest missing data scandal to hit the Government.Last month it was revealed records of 25million child benefit claimants were missing.
And last week three million drivers had their files lost.
**What I find scary with regards this, is that aside from the almost total inaction by government & Gordon Brown claiming that the public are like empty headed goldfish when he stated:
"recent scandals to have hit the government, such as data loss and proxy donations, will be "quickly forgotten". - Oh no we won't, we shall remember and fuck you in the empty eye socket come election time you cunt. He assumes we have the memory of goldfish! and also getting back to the NHS data they do not know exactly what data has been lost!
Ministers faced embarrassment over more mislaid data yesterday when they were forced to admit that they did not have details on what information had been lost by nine NHS trusts.
The loss of data potentially covering tens of thousands of patients' records has been disclosed to the Department of Health by the trusts and to the information commissioner.
Ministers will be worried that the loss will further undermine confidence in the department's plans for a new computer database of all NHS patients' records.
**Order them some clown suits, red noses and silly flowers that squirt water - its all government ministers are fit for.
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This is disgusting, how much of these people losing our data will we have to take before people demand that they get out of downing street?
We need a hanging party, that will resolve the problem once and for all.
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