A laptop containing the medical records of more than 5,000 patients has been stolen from a hospital, it was revealed today.
The computer was taken from the outpatients department at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, West Midlands, on January 8.
It contains a database with information on 5,123 anticoagulation patients, the hospital said.
Letters have been sent to those affected and police have launched an investigation.
A username password is needed to get into the laptop and another username and password is needed to open the database, apparently.
I hope they were one of the more imaginative public servants.
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