IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitalsβ maternity records
22 September 2026 at 16:55
A βhuman errorβ in the IT department led to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) losing data from maternity records over an 11-year span.
The data loss occurred on August 18, the English hospitals announced in a blog post on Monday spotted by The Register. The blog said the problem is βthe result of human errorβ during routine technical work while βcreating a copy of a radiotherapy database for reporting purposes.β
The post reads:


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