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Camden News - by RICHARD OSLEY
Published: 9 October 2008

Patient data may have been lost

HEALTH chiefs apologised after admitting they don’t know what happened to the nursing records of thousands of patients stored on a computer database.
The machine, containing a range of sensitive details including patients’ individual ailments, was supposed to be destroyed during an upgrade at the Gospel Oak Health Centre, in Lismore Circus.
But bosses said they can’t be sure that the job was ever completed and have alerted patients of the potential danger that files could fall into the wrong hands.
Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT) said on Tuesday that it thought the risk of data being accessed by identity thieves was “remote”.
A spokeswoman said: “On August 13, ten computers were removed from the Gospel Oak Health Centre to be destroyed. An entry in the Estates and Facilities Log for Camden PCT states that the computers have been destroyed – however there is no definite proof of this, and the PCT is investigating the matter.”

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