IE Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital 2016 Technical Error (Q13020)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | IE Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital 2016 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2016
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Councillor Toms Sharkey has hit out at the latest breach of patient privacy in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. Last week patients and their families received calls from management of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. The call was to apologise for the fact that personal files, found in a public place in Drogheda were handed in to LMFM radio station. I have been contacted by a small number of people affected by this. One patient affected was an 84 year old woman. She was a patient in that hospital during the week up to 9th March. I have been given the name if the doctor whose care she was under. The hospital manager made a verbal apology on behalf of the hospital and explained that the files must have blown out of the doctors hands while going to a car. This is not acceptable for a number of reas (English)
