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UK: NHS Farce Leads to Lost Data

Mark Ballard writes on The Register:

Primitive backup procedures at Bexley Care Trust have led to the loss of email, contact, calendar, and schedule data across two NHS trusts.

Bexley provided the Exchange email systems for itself and Greenwich Primary Care Trust (PCT) until the system went kaput last week.

This would not have been a problem if Bexley had adequate backup procedures, according to sources.

A spokeswoman for Greenwich PCT confirmed that data had been lost with the email system collapse, but said the system was "up and running now".

posted by Fergie @ 7/04/2006 06:12:00 AM