UK: Patient data breach after bag stolen at Poole Hospital

BBC reports:

Patients’ details were inside a bag which was stolen in an NHS hospital, it has emerged.

The bag, which contained the personal information of “a number of patients”, was stolen in Dorset’s Poole Hospital, a report by its trust said.

It was “discarded and hidden within the hospital” and the documents recovered, according to a Bournemouth Echo report.

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