Glyn Wintle, 26 November 2008
Reports from all 10 strategic health authorities in England show incidents ranging from the theft of a laptop with more than 5,000 patients' details in the West Midlands to the loss a memory stick with 4,000 patient records and the disappearance of 100 patients' paper records in the North West. ... Norman Lamb MP sid "We already know from the Information Commissioner that the NHS is among the worst offenders for data loss, reporting as many incidents as the entire private sector."Source: The Independent
