Patients records from Craigavon Area Hospital found on public road

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Carmel Robinson reports that patient records containing patients’ names, their age, social history as well as a brief medical history and why they had been admitted to hospital were found on a public road by a man walking with his child:

The patient records relate to a date in January and refer to 18 named patients on ward 2 South Medicine at Craigavon Area Hospital.

The man, who prefers not to be named, said he saw similar papers across the road but was unable to get to them.

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This is not the first or last incident of it's kind. In my community they sold old pc's and didn't bother to format the hard discs, so all the classified info was there.