GB Bedford Hospital 2014 Technical Error (Q16103)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | GB Bedford Hospital 2014 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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C0E70057-E538-4740-8A03-817FD88E058B
January 2014
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A hospital has launched an investigation into how confidential medical records dating back 60 years came to be found by a group of teenagers at a disused building site. The youngsters discovered the documents, including one psychiatric report on a child and details of baby deaths and diseases such as HIV, in filing cabinets on the abandoned Bedford North Wing Hospital site in Bedford. Andrew Reed, chief executive of Bedford Hospital, said they were extremely concerned about the incident. This information has clearly been inappropriately stored and I am personally going to investigate immediately. We will have the site cleared as a matter of urgency, he added. The site, which has been disused since the late 1990s and is said to have become a haven for drug users, is the responsibility of t (English)
