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Records Inappropriately accessed

It has been reported that the ECS of patients in Scotland has been accessed without patient consent. It is not kwon how many patients have been affected and when I was listening to the news last night it seems the NHS trust in question (Fife) do not know when the records were accessed or why they were accessed.

As usual, here are a couple of links about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7763349.stm

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2472801.0.rogue_doctor_accessed_files_for_unknown_reasons.php

Thursday, 4, December, 2008 Posted by medicalprivacy | ECS, GPs, NHS, access, confidential, data security, databases, opt-out, privacy | , , , , , , | No Comments Yet