[Dataloss] UK: Tories offer NHS IT rescue plan after major patient data losses

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/24/nhs_trust_data_losses/

The Tory party has put forward a rescue plan for the NHS IT system in the 
wake of the latest government data losses, which were revealed over the 
weekend. Nine English NHS trusts have owned up to large scale losses of 
personal data, and although in most cases the nature of this data has yet 
to be revealed, City & Hackney Primary Care Trust reportedly mislaid the 
names and addresses of 160,000 children.

Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Tory Shadow Health Secretary Andrew 
Lansley said that the losses illustrated the dangers of holding all NHS 
records on a single database that could be accessed by 300,000 
individuals. The system need not however, he stressed, be entirely 
abandoned. Instead, data should be held on smaller, interoperable local 
databases.

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