Diagnosis of cancer in the catalog of blunders Fax NHS

The faxed sensitive medical records, including the patient's cancer diagnosis to the strangers by hospitals NHS. Security breaches have allowed millions of patient records to go missing or fall into the wrong hands, with a doubling in the number of fatal errors recorded by the health service in four years.Medical test results were found by members of the public in boxes outside of hospitals, with personal data another left on trains and at bus stops, while some hospitals have repeatedly faxed patient information to other cases numbers.In wrong, NHS staff access to records illegally in order to pursue personal vendettas. The health care assistant was able to get phone numbers of relatives who have changed their numbers, estranged from their homes to escape the nuisance calls her, while the receptionist GP was able to threaten her sister in law by finding out what medicine was taking.Disclosures under the Freedom of reveal information about 600 security breaches involving NHS patients personal data in four years.Doubled the number of accidents each year, from 90 in 2008 to 179 in the past year, with millons of records involved.