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Security Breach

Posted by medicalprivacy on Friday, 4, January, 2008

The one thing that anoyes me the most is people talking rubbish about access. Take the example of Michael Summers, of the Patients’ Association who said

Patients provide confidential information to their GPs and to hospital doctors, information that no-one else has, on the basis that it will always remain confidential. Suddenly we discover that it’s not confidential after all. It gets leaked in one form or another and is lost

You would think he would know that medical data is rarely handled in the way he says.

 The article is mainly about data lost by the NHS. They still claim that there is no evidence to suggest it got into the wrong hands but then ignore the basic fact that it is not in the right hands ether. These are the twits and morons hell bent on dowing away with medical privacy for good and they cant even look after what they have.

Full article can be found at

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=70BF167E-7612-47AF-87DC-9ACD23F5ABF6

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