Twenty-four UK doctors in five years censured over medical record breaches
by Denis Campbell Health policy editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6C5WP)
GMC says cases were among 194 incidents of alleged violations of confidentiality between 2017 and 2022
Two-dozen doctors have been disciplined by the UK medical regulator in the last five years after accessing and using information from patients' treatment records without good reason.
The General Medical Council (GMC) said it had struck off two of the 24 doctors it had sanctioned after finding that they had undertaken inappropriate use" of medical records.
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