'Coding' cockup blamed for NHS cough-up of confidential info against patients' wishes

'Coding' cockup blamed for NHS cough-up of confidential info against patients' wishes

6 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/03/confidential_patient_info_nhs_software_share_tpp/

Confidential information on 150,000 NHS patients has been distributed against their wishes for years due to a "coding error" by healthcare software supplier TPP.

NHS Digital, the body that oversees the healthcare service's use of data, fessed up to the bungle – which saw data on the affected patients used in ways they had specifically requested it wasn't – this week.