Medical documents found dumped – again | Medical Error Action Group

SYDNEY — Another privacy breach. Clearly the NSW Health Ministry doesn’t know what it is doing, still, after last month’s “effort”.

More than 700 public patients have had their privacy breached after more than 1000 medical letters were found dumped in Sydney bin.

Sub-contracting out the disposal of patient records is unacceptable. Does the NSW Health Department use the same method of disposing of their own in-house documents?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/patient-privacy-breached-as-over-1400-medical-letters-found-dumped-in-sydney-bin-20170420-gvp8be.html

Posted by MEAG on April 21, 2017