Health officials investigating a contractor’s loss of medical correspondence have discovered a further 162,000 missing documents, which could include patient records and cancer tests, parliament’s spending watchdog was told on Monday. Following an inquiry into the loss of the original 702,000 documents, NHS managers have admitted that two new tranches of missing medical papers have been uncovered and it is not yet known if the patients involved are at risk. End of March is a feasible goal.”NHS officials told the committee that of the original missing files, they sent 5,562 cases for clinical review. SBS was then “obstructive and unhelpful” to NHS England in the inquiry it then instigated, the NAO found. NHS officials and SBS apologised for the lost documents, saying that SBS has paid £4.34m for the loss.

Source: The Guardian October 16, 2017 21:22 UTC