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Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients 'deliberately' sent to industrial partner

Canberra Health Services chief executive Dave Peffer says patients had been "let down" by the data breach. (ABC News: Ian Cutmore)

Some Canberra Health Services (CHS) patients' records have been emailed to people outside of the organisation, in what has been described as a "serious breach of privacy".

In an all-staff email, CHS chief executive Dave Peffer said the records had been sent by a small number of staff to multiple people within of one its industrial partners.

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