NHS trust suspends 10 staff over Noah Woods data breach

Ten NHS staff have been suspended from duty after accessing the medical records of 3 year old Noah Woods who went missing and was later found dead.This latest unauthorised access of patient data came to light just a day after NHS England warned that there would be a “zero tolerance crackdown on snooping staff.”1Jim Mackey, NHS England chief executive, wrote to every NHS trust saying that staff suspected of accessing patient records without proper justification would be suspended pending investigation and have their access to NHS systems paused.The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that the latest breach and other recent high profile incidents was “painting an extremely worrying picture” that pointed to a “systemic cultural issue requiring urgent action.”Noah went missing on 15 September from a playground in the village of Brantham in Suffolk. A major search was launched, and his body was found the next day in a nearby…