Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/07/bexley_nhs_statement/
Bexley NHS searches for lost data
Patient data is safe and sound
Posted in Public Sector, 7th July 2006 15:22 GMT
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Bexley Care Trust is still looking for the email and schedule data it lost after its servers had a seizure and its backup system went into a coma over a week ago.
In a statement issued to The Register, a spokeswoman for Bexley said: "Work is being done to retrieve the data.
"No clinical information or patient records were affected as patient records and data is held on a separate server".
Greenwich Primary Care also lost data as Bexley provided it with an email service using the same system.
Sources said (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/04/nhs_data_farce/) Bexley knew six months ago that its battery needed replacing on the uninterruptible power supply that provided backup power for its email server; and that its email was running on a creaky old system.
Bexley has yet to explain why the data was lost or what the consequences could be for patient care.®