GB Royal Oldham Hospital 2013 Technical Error (Q12661)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | GB Royal Oldham Hospital 2013 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2013
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Data about 16 child patients at the Royal Oldham Hospital was found more than 40 miles away in Liverpool. The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said any loss of data was unacceptable. A spokesman told Capital: We take incidents involving patient data very seriously. We have clear systems in place to ensure the confidentiality of patient data and this information would normally only be handled by a small number of doctors and nurses on the Childrens ward. We will now undertake a full investigation into how this document ended up in Liverpool. As part of this investigation, we will find out what went wrong in this case. We will also be contacting the parents and guardians of all the sixteen patients involved. At the same time bosses at the Royal Bolton Hospital are investigating after medic (English)
