More than 500 data protection breaches were recorded by the HSE last year – including patients’ files going missing or being sent to the wrong people.
The files show a medical document was found outside Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise while a HSE employee inappropriately accessed the data of a colleague in Galway University Hospitals last April.
Details released to the Irish Mirror in a Freedom of Information request also showed a worker inadvertently discussed a patient’s health data with another patient in Letterkenny University Hospital last December.
