A senior NHS hospital manager has been suspended after a laptop containing the confidential details of 21,000 patients was stolen.

Hospital manager suspended over stolen laptop with 21,000 patient records
Article in the Telegraph

Extract:

"The manager, from the Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, is understood to have the left the password-protected computer in the car while it was parked in Edinburgh on June 18th.

It has on it unencrypted names, dates of birth and treatment plans and a police investigation had been launched."

Incredible, isn't it, the laxity of security of NHS patient records?