Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally destroying 10,000 archived records, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.

The records – which should have been kept in a dedicated storage area – were put in a disposal room due to lack of space. The records were then mistakenly removed from the room and destroyed between the 28 and 31 December 2010. The hospital failed to realise that the information was missing for three months!

http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2011/ten-thousand-archived-records-destroyed-in-hospital-data-blunder-04102011.aspx

Well, at least the deserve praise for removing the contents of the waste store in a timely manner. Though other serious failings are obvious, waste management is obviously on the ball.

Somehow I doubt they will be giving out gold stars, so maybe its boobie prizes all around?