If it is true secretarial posts at Brighton and district hospitals are to be replaced with staff employed abroad, what right have hospitals to release private notes to foreign countries without the patients' permission?
We have always understood medical notes are confidential and are accessed by medical staff in the UK only. However, we gather notes on cardiac patients are already being processed in South Africa.
It is surely a breach of our human rights to disclose this kind of information to external sources.
This must also increase the risk of forgery and identity theft.
As for spending £500,000 on consultants, we sometimes wonder why hospitals and government departments employ managers a ten-year-old could work out cutting staff would save money.
Think how many nurses could be employed with that amount of money in a year.
-DE and RR Mead, Peacehaven
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