[NHS] Trust staff go unpunished for patient data snooping
Trusts are failing to punish staff caught snooping on patients' records, NHS Employers has revealed.
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At one trust in the North East, the number of staff involved in a recent incident reached double figures.
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One of the problems was staff passing around smart cards, which provide access to patients' medical records and prescriptions.
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This problem is going to get a lot worse when all our medical records are put on the national SPINE database which over 300,000 NHS employees will have access to.
