This appeared last week:Patient privacy breach: over 1600 medical letters found dumped in Sydney binKate Aubusson Published: April 21, 2017 - 4:52PM More than 700 public patients have had their privacy breached and potential delays in their follow up care after more than 1600 medical letters were found dumped in a Sydney bin.NSW Health is investigating the incident involving a sub-contractor for a company tasked with transcribing medical letters sent from specialists to general practitioners.On Tuesday, April 11, a man found piles of follow-up letters containing patient details stuffed into a garbage bin at an apartment block in Ashfield. It is understood there were more than 1600 documents in total. Some of the letters were duplicates. The man called in his neighbour, a female health worker, who recognised the documents were out-patient letters and contacted Ashfield police. A sub-contractor for Global Transcription Services (GTS) was supposed to...
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