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UK patients' health records misplaced: BBC News Review reviews



Hundreds of UK medical records have been misplaced. Dan and Catherine teach you the language the world’s media is using to discuss this story.

The story

More than 1,700 NHS patients may have been harmed by an administrative blunder, the National Audit Office has found. Over five years, tens of thousands of documents, including cancer diagnoses and other test results, were put in storage instead of being sent to hospitals or GPs. The NAO report says the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, knew there was a problem in March 2016, but waited four months before alerting parliament.

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