Patients' personal details stolen from doctor's bag at Whipps Cross Hospital

The Waltham Forest Guardian reports:

PATIENTS’ personal details were stolen from a hospital after being left in a doctor’s bag.

Notes written during visits by 100 patients since April 2011, which included test results and treatments as well as names and addresses, were taken from an office and have not been recovered.

Victim Sarah Askell, of Gordon Road in Wanstead, received a letter from the hospital to say her confidential details could be in the public domain.

The 24-year-old, who visited the hospital on December 21 and 28, said: “I was absolutely shocked.

“I can’t believe someone out there knows the details of why I went to hospital.”

“Why is this information not stored in a filing cabinet or on a computer?" ...