Reprimands · Health
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
No fineReprimands
Root cause
Other or unclassified
The published notice did not contain enough detail to classify a single root cause.
What happened
Hysteroscopy scans were saved on to a series of three USB sticks over a period of nine years from May 2013 until the remaining two encrypted USB sticks became inaccessible on 5 April 2018. It is unknown whether this inaccessibility was as a result of a technical failure of the USBs or human error from inputting the wrong password.
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 10 November 2022. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.