another NHS cockup!

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have a look at this:

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thought we might be affected by this so i called the so-called helpline but strangely, the woman who answered the phone only asked for my name and phone number, i would have thought she would need dd's names, d.o.b.'s and address?
trying to keep this mess quiet?
seeing as you need a security pass just to get into the building, no way has this been stolen from within the office, this has been left on a car passenger seat by some dozy health visitor or something.
and what is information like that doing being carried around anyway? surely it should be held somewhere more secure?

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Looks like one hell of a cock-up. Although if MI5 people can leave laptops with secure information in a wine bar...

Emphasises what a huge disaster the big NHS central medical record is going to be, though.

Laptops bother me tbh.

My first f-t employment was in retail banking and ALL records were locked away each night. Now all sorts of data leaves offices on laptops. I realise people working on the road need laptops to do their job but the public also needs to realise that the downside of having someone come to your home and quote for a mortgage/ins/life assurance or even do your baby check and enter info to a computer means they walk away with lots and lots of personal info which could fall into someone else's hands.

And, at the end of each day, it's unlikely they'll download that data and scrub it from the laptop, like they might in the past have dumped paper files back in the office and taken a new batch out the next day meaning only a few people's records were vulnerable at any one time.