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East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust has lost a data cartridge containing 42,000 copies of patient forms.
In a statement, Sue Noyes, the chief executive of the service, explained that the trust takes responsibility for the security and confidentiality of the information it records and stores "very seriously", before stating that it had reported the incident to the Information Commissioner, to Nottinghamshire Police and NHS organisations who monitor and regulate the trust's service.
"A data cartridge containing just under 42,000 electronic copies of scanned handwritten Patient Report Forms, which we believe are from September 2012 to November 2012, has gone missing from our Beechdale divisional headquarters in Nottingham," Noyes said.
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news...oses-data-cartridge-with-42-000-patient-forms
In a statement, Sue Noyes, the chief executive of the service, explained that the trust takes responsibility for the security and confidentiality of the information it records and stores "very seriously", before stating that it had reported the incident to the Information Commissioner, to Nottinghamshire Police and NHS organisations who monitor and regulate the trust's service.
"A data cartridge containing just under 42,000 electronic copies of scanned handwritten Patient Report Forms, which we believe are from September 2012 to November 2012, has gone missing from our Beechdale divisional headquarters in Nottingham," Noyes said.
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news...oses-data-cartridge-with-42-000-patient-forms