Top surgeon’s records dumped at bus stop
Monday 17th May 2010, 2:30PM BST.
A former top Shropshire surgeon’s personal treatment records were among hundreds from Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital found dum-ped at a bus stop, it emerged today.
Nigel Philp’s confidential details were on a computer disk containing information about almost 800 other patients. It was found in Wolverhampton.
Mr Philp, of Quatford, near Bridgnorth, retired as a consultant neurologist at New Cross two years ago after 20 years at the hospital. The 64-year-old said today: “I don’t know how any health notes might have got where they did but it doesn’t surprise me.
“Notes go all over the place and they must have somehow gone outside the hospital. Security systems aren’t as good as they should be. It is a real worry.”
The hospital’s chief executive, David Loughton, has launched an investigation into the find of the records.
He has stressed, however, that it was “not a simple incident of someone losing a CD at a bus stop with information on it”.
He said “every rule in the book” had been broken.
The disk bore the hospital trust’s logo and was labelled Cardiothoracic Critical Care Patient Report Forms.
It contains a single folder called “confidential medical records”.
The information relates to people who have been treated at the hospital’s £50m regional Heart and Lung Centre.
The patients, many in their 70s and 80s, come not only from Shropshire but from the Black Country and as far afield as Worcester.
There were 792 medical files in the folder, dating back as early as 2004.
Computer experts have been brought in by the hospital to find the source of the leak.
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Nigel Philp was a consultant UROLOGIST not neurologist!!!
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