Data Commissioner calls for robust protection of personal files

The Data Protection Commissioner has called on the HSE to review the methods by which it stores medical records, after personal files were found in a bin outside Roscommon County Hospital.

It comes after the confidential files of over 100 patients from the Longford - Westmeath areas, were found in a litter bin on the grounds of Roscommon County Hospital.

The documents related to people who had attended the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar.

The Data Protection Commissioner has launched an investigation into the matter and said that the member of the Roscommon Hospital Action Committee group who found the documents had acted in good faith.