AIBU to feel appalled by staff accessing murdered children’s records?

Ian Coates was murdered too. His records were also accessed.

Curiosity is human nature.

Filming road traffic accidents is not basic curiosity, it goes way beyond that and is not normal behaviour.

The two can’t be compared.

At my sleepy hospital there was an A list celebrity who attended ED as their hometown is fairly close. Three final year medical students accessed their medical records unnecessarily. The IT department did an audit and when it was found out they were kicked out of university.

I remember another trust had a huge number of people access the records of an athlete who had had a cardiac arrest but I’m not sure how they were reprimanded

Well they should be struck off,

Totally unacceptable. This is just prurience. There was no way staff uninvolved in their care should have been accessing records.

Why on earth do 14% of people voting think YABU?!

I hope they all feel totally ashamed.What did they hope to gain from accessing the records.
They should be made to sit down with families of the victims and explain why they did it.

@WearyAuldWumman goodness ! That's quite a career 😳

But you really don’t get much money and they were stabbed so it’s fairly straightforward. It’s not enough money to risk your job over. With the Russian poisoning in Salisbury I can understand it more (not justifying it).

Everyone at our trust are and have been told for many years that they could be seriously disciplined for even looking at their own records.

Got to be.
Same reason they tried to access the POWs when she was undergoing cancer treatment.

Sell information to the media?

Lord knows. The head of Children's Services was clearly out of his depth, in my opinion, but the social workers' bizarre actions weren't caused by him. He used to be the Director of Education, but Fife combined his post with that of the head of Children's Social Work. The two roles are once again separate.

He vehemently denied that the debacle in social work had anything to do with his resignation. He got a golden handshake and now runs a church.

The local paper occasionally runs articles about his endeavours both home and abroad. (He's a member of the Plymouth Brethren.)

It’s human nature.

General society reads about the deaths in newspapers, or hears about it on the news, and the NHS staff have one more means of information as they can the medical details (which is their professional interest) and they see the true details as opposed to media’s version.

They are silly to take the risk in terms of thinking they won’t find out, but their motives are no different to anyone in society who either reads newspapers or watches the news with regards to being interested (for want if a better word) in horrific tragedies.

Why on earth would you think anyone would find it UNreasonable?

They deserved to be sacked for their stupidity alone! As others have said, I work for the NHS and it is very much drilled into you constantly, from day 1 not to access patient records without a legitimate need. I would not want a medical professional dealing with me with this level of stupidity and lack of care. well deserved sackings. Unbelievable.

I used to work for an organisation who provided services for a lot of high profile individuals e.g. footballers, celebrities etc.

We were explicitly told on a regular basis not to access those records unless dealing with that person. Someone did and was fired the same day.
This wasn't recently and I'm surprised high profile records aren't now locked down in some way.

No. They want to gossip about it whether that’s to people they know or to the press (and get paid).

So no less than 25 NHS staff members inappropriately accessed those records at that one Nottingham trust alone. Seems to me hugely indicative of the culture there. It must be common practice for them to do this, they just got caught out this time as the victims pushed.

Ybu for asking a daft question!