NHS Trusts lose patients' data
Nine National Health Service trusts have lost the records of hundreds of thousands of adults and children, the government said on Sunday, in the latest embarrassing loss of data by official bodies.
The Sunday Mirror said patient details were lost in 10 incidents at the NHS Trusts.
A CD with the names and addresses of 160,000 children was lost by the City and Hackney trust in east London and records of 244 cancer patients had been misplaced by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Health Trust in Kent, the paper reported.
The Department of Health (DoH) said affected patients had been told and there was no evidence the information had fallen into the wrong hands.
"Since the recent heightened concern about data protection a small number of trusts have reported breaches of their own security rules," the DoH told media.
"There are strict guidelines and procedures for dealing with such breaches. Investigations are under way in all the trusts involved and action will be taken against anyone who has failed to fulfil their legal responsibilities."
Blair converts to Catholicism
Former prime minister Tony Blair has converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, the head of Britain's Catholics said on Saturday.
Blair, whose wife and four children are Catholic, was received into the Catholic Church by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor on Friday in a move that had been widely expected after he stepped down from power in June.
MPs set for 10% rise in three years
MPs are in line for a series of above-inflation pay rises which will boost their salaries by almost 10% over the next three years, it was claimed.
The Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) is said to have recommended an increase in MPs' pay from £60,675 at present to about £66,500 in 2011.
Second Body Found After Flying Phantom Tug Sinks On Clyde
The body has been recovered of another member of the crew of a tug which capsized in thick fog on the River Clyde.
Strathclyde police say the victim was 57-year-old Eric Blackley.
The body of fellow crew member Robert Cameron, 65, was found on Friday night while a third man, skipper Stephen Humphreys, 33, is still missing.
Two arrested after 'racist murder'
wo teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after an Asian man died in a racist attack.
The victim, aged 28, was beaten to death near a Labour Club in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
He was found collapsed behind the Derby Ward Labour Club in Deane.
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Nine National Health Service trusts have lost the records of hundreds of thousands of adults and children, the government said on Sunday, in the latest embarrassing loss of data by official bodies.
The Sunday Mirror said patient details were lost in 10 incidents at the NHS Trusts.
A CD with the names and addresses of 160,000 children was lost by the City and Hackney trust in east London and records of 244 cancer patients had been misplaced by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Health Trust in Kent, the paper reported.
The Department of Health (DoH) said affected patients had been told and there was no evidence the information had fallen into the wrong hands.
"Since the recent heightened concern about data protection a small number of trusts have reported breaches of their own security rules," the DoH told media.
"There are strict guidelines and procedures for dealing with such breaches. Investigations are under way in all the trusts involved and action will be taken against anyone who has failed to fulfil their legal responsibilities."
Blair converts to Catholicism
Former prime minister Tony Blair has converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, the head of Britain's Catholics said on Saturday.
Blair, whose wife and four children are Catholic, was received into the Catholic Church by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor on Friday in a move that had been widely expected after he stepped down from power in June.
MPs set for 10% rise in three years
MPs are in line for a series of above-inflation pay rises which will boost their salaries by almost 10% over the next three years, it was claimed.
The Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) is said to have recommended an increase in MPs' pay from £60,675 at present to about £66,500 in 2011.
Second Body Found After Flying Phantom Tug Sinks On Clyde
The body has been recovered of another member of the crew of a tug which capsized in thick fog on the River Clyde.
Strathclyde police say the victim was 57-year-old Eric Blackley.
The body of fellow crew member Robert Cameron, 65, was found on Friday night while a third man, skipper Stephen Humphreys, 33, is still missing.
Two arrested after 'racist murder'
wo teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after an Asian man died in a racist attack.
The victim, aged 28, was beaten to death near a Labour Club in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
He was found collapsed behind the Derby Ward Labour Club in Deane.
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