Moray MP Douglas Ross is pleased that NHS Grampian has acted quickly to ensure that patient information remains confidential following a data breach where he was sent information about a patient from Aberdeen in response to a constituency query about someone from Moray.
Douglas said: “I asked NHS Grampian to launch an urgent review after I received a letter from them relating to a Moray resident whose case I was pursuing. The reply arrived in my Forres office but included with it were three pages of private and confidential information about a patient who lives in Aberdeen.
“I have now received details from NHS Grampian about the full investigation they conducted and the measures they have put in place immediately to minimise the risk of this happening again. It is very welcome that their processes have been updated as a result of this investigation.
“I am glad that NHS Grampian took the breach of patient confidentiality so seriously and I congratulate them on their prompt action to put new systems in place to ensure that information on individual patients is not inadvertently shared with someone else.”