A former NHS employee has been found guilty and fined for illegally accessing the medical records of over 150 people.
Loretta Alborghetti, from Redditch, worked as a medical secretary within the Ophthalmology department at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust when she illegally accessed the records.
In June 2019, a complaint was raised by a patient who was concerned that their medical records had been accessed by an employee. An investigation revealed that Ms Alborghetti had accessed this individual's records 33 times between March 2019 and June 2019, without consent or a business need to do so.
As part of her role as a medical secretary, Ms Alborghetti was required to access clinical and personal information of patients within the ophthalmology department. However, the individuals whose records were accessed had no medical conditions relating to ophthalmology.
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