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Commission to investigate medical records mishap

   Posted May 25, 2009 11:00:00

   The Privacy Commission has launched an inquiry into how boxes containing
   sensitive records from a number of private aged care facilities came to be
   left on a Sydney street.

   A  taxi  driver  discovered at least ten boxes of personal information
   belonging to staff and patients outside the Moran Health Care Group building
   in Sydney's C-B-D on Sunday.

   The taxi driver says the documents included staff banking details and wills
   from nursing homes in Kalgoorlie, Murwillumbah and Mandurah.

   The Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, says the situation is concerning.

   "Under  the  Privacy  Act, health businesses like many businesses have
   obligations to keep information secure," she said.

   "When they no longer need it they actually have to take reasonable steps to
   make sure it's destroyed appropriately, so we've opened an investigation
   into the incident."

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