Happy Christmas, Britain. Just ahead of the holiday, the National Health Service delivers a gift to hundreds of thousands of victims patients of the socialized medical system. Yes, indeed, the NHS, shows its Christmas spirit, indeed.
By losing the medical records of hundreds of thousands of Britons.
Nine NHS trusts have admitted losing confidential patients’ information in the aftermath of the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data loss scandal, it emerged today.
Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been affected by the breaches of strict data protection rules by the health service.
The losses were disclosed by the Sunday Mirror newspaper as police continued to hunt for two HMRC computer discs containing the details of 25 million child benefit claimants.
Since the tax discs went missing in the post it has also emerged that three million motorists’ details have been lost in Iowa, in the American mid-west.
The sheer level of bureaucratic incompetence involved here is stunning. The excuses trotted out by the NHS are pathetic:
“There is no evidence of any data falling into the wrong hands."
Oh, they promise that the guilty will be punished. They'll probably complete their investigations sometime around the next millennium. Or the one after.
Still think socialized medicine is a great idea?
