The NHS has lost a laptop containing 8.63 million people’s records. This looks like SUS data. See also PC Pro and The Sun. The Information Commissioner is apparently investigating.

The NHS Confidentiality Campaign’s very own Prof Ross Anderson is speaking at the Health Privacy Summit in Washington DC this week. More information on the summit can be found here

When greed and breach of trust meet – a nurse at a walk-in centre passed patient records to her boyfriend who worked for an ambulance-chasing law firm.