NHS sacks 15 staff over patient record breaches as Cooper demands action

Yvette Cooper said NHS staff who breach data standards should be sacked after trusts dismissed 15 staff over accessing victims' records.

• Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has sacked 15 staff for inappropriately accessing the 2023 Nottingham attack victims' medical records.
• Yorkshire Ambulance Service said it is investigating two staff who may have accessed records of William Chapman, mauled to death by a tiger.
• Cooper said staff who breach NHS data standards should be suspended during investigations and sacked if breaches are confirmed.
• The trust also issued 15 final written warnings and two first written warnings to other staff involved.