BBC News Review: UK patients' health records misplaced


source: BBC Learning English    2017年6月27日
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The story
More than 1,700 NHS patients may have been harmed by an administrative blunder, the National Audit Office has found.
Over five years, tens of thousands of documents, including cancer diagnoses and other test results, were put in storage instead of being sent to hospitals or GPs.
The NAO report says the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, knew there was a problem in March 2016, but waited four months before alerting parliament.
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