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East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group

East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group Data Breach (2016)

East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group

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Disclosed

January 1, 2016

3738 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Lost Device

Industry

Healthcare

Description

'Serious Incident': East Riding patients medical records lost by company paid to keep them safe MEDICAL records for patients in the East Riding have been lost by a firm paid by health bosses to keep them safe in storage. East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has launched an investigation after discovering paper records had gone missing. Staff from the CCG's Continuing Health Care team had asked the company paid to store the records to view some of the archived records relating to patients who had died and case notes for others; told CCG board members a "serious incident" had been declared and an investigation was under way. "The storage company commissioned to store case notes and archive case notes was unable to locate a number of records.