Capita to blame for NHS data loss of 100,000 patients More than 100,000 patients were caught up in NHS data blunders in the last 12 months, official figures reveal.
Sacks of medical records were delivered to the wrong surgeries, emails sent to private firms and confidential details published on websites.
The number of serious ‘data’ incidents has doubled in a year and they are now occurring at a frequency of one every three weeks.
According to the NHS’s own figures, some 18 serious errors were reported in 2016/17 affecting just under 101,000 patients.
In one case last July a health trust mistakenly sent confidential information about 100,000 patients to an unnamed ‘third party. The Daily Mail
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