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IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records

22 September 2026 at 16:55

A β€œhuman error” 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 β€œthe result of human error” during routine technical work while β€œcreating a copy of a radiotherapy database for reporting purposes.”

The post reads:

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