NHS data loss: 500 patients may have suffered serious harm

NHS England is investigating 537 ‘live cases’, but health secretary Jeremy Hunt states in Commons that so far no cases of harm have been confirmedFive hundred patients may have suffered serious harm as a result of the NHS mislaying 500,000 test results and letters over a five-year period, ministers and officials have admitted in parliament.The review is also understood to be looking at whether correspondence between GPs and hospitals that disappeared between 2011 and 2016 caused or c