Patient medical records found in a pub and carpark 

A total of 60 data protection breaches were reported in the HSE western region during 2019, and the number more than doubled to 123 last year. File photo: Larry Cummins

Patients’ medical records from Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) were found in a pub and in a carpark by members of the public in two separate incidents that occurred in the same five-week period, it has emerged.

In another data protection breach involving the hospital, a patient list was discovered by a passer-by outside a “public premises”, and a patient who was being discharged from LUH was given medications meant for another person.