While not on the scale of some of the previous gargantuan NHS data loss cockups, an NHS Lothian worker has none the less done their best to compromise patient data security.
This time it’s all of the letters sent by 137 patients to their Edinburgh GPs over a period of two years. All this data was stored on a USB flash drive which was promptly ‘lost’.
NHS Lothian say they immediately called in their their own IT team to find all of the patients who had been put at risk by this latest data loss. It begs the question though, why can’t these IT departments start training NHS workers to use industry-strength encryption which is readily available through well-know, free and easy to use open-source software?
Tags: data loss, encryption, nhs, nhs lothian, usb memory stick
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