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 Colin Ross

11,000 Wolverhampton patient details stolen

8.14.15am UTC (GMT +0000) Thu 19th Jun 2008

The health records of nearly 11,000 patients are on a laptop stolen from the Wolverhampton home of a GP. The Doctor was from Castlecroft Medical Practice.

The information was not encrypted to make it difficult to access, as health guidelines say it should be.

The information on the laptop included names, dates of birth, addresses, contact details and confidential records.

Department of Health guidelines state any confidential information about patients must be stored in safe and secure environments.

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