Sack NHS staff who snooped on tiger victim’s records, health secretary says

Any NHS staff found to have improperly accessed patient records belonging to the tiger attack victim William Chapman should be sacked, health secretary Yvette Cooper says.Chapman was killed by the tiger after he entered the animal’s enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park on 10 October.Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) said that two instances—involving two different members of staff—who may have accessed or attempted to access Chapman’s records without authorisation were under investigation.This case follows several other recent ones of health service staff improperly accessing patient data, including records belonging to the three people killed by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham in 2023.1More NHS workers have been dismissed in relation to those breaches, it was also revealed last week.Speaking in the wake of the Chapman case, Cooper said that any snooping on patient records by NHS staff was “a disgrace.”“We do expect action to be taken, including people being sacked,” Cooper said, speaking on…