East Midlands Ambulance Service patient records disk 'missing'

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An NHS trust has lost a computer disk containing details of 42,000 ambulance patients.

The disk contains copies of handwritten report forms listing anyone who used East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) over two months in 2012.

EMAS chief executive Sue Noyes said the incident had been reported to Nottinghamshire Police and the Information Commissioner.

She said the disk has been locked away at its headquarters in Nottingham.

Ms Noyes added there had been no break-in at the Beechdale building.

The records only contained names and addresses of patients treated by paramedics at the scene of an incident between September and November 2012.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-28900997
 
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