Patients' privatemedical data lost on 29 occasions
Patients' sensitive medical details went missing on 29 separate occasions in the Western Health and Social Care Trust over the past five years, according to data newly released by the Health Minister Michelle O'Neill.
The confidential records went missing at various times between November 2011 and November of last year, the Minister revealed.
This was the highest incidence rate of missing records of any health authority across the North. In fact, more records were lost in the Western Trust that in the rest of the North combined.