How much

444,031 records

Why

Organ donation preferences were recorded incorrectly due to a software error.

Regulator

ICO

Regulatory action

Undertaking issued to ensure that data must be routinely checked for accuracy.

Reason for action

The software error had been introduced into the system early in 1999 and had not been uncovered in the years that followed due to a lack of data checks.

When

21 January 2011

Links

View PDF of the NHS Blood and Transplant Undertaking (Via ICO Website)

View PDF of the NHS Blood and Transplant Undertaking (Breach Watch Archive)