Patient privacy breach: thousands of medical letters found dumped

By Kate Aubusson
Updated June 28 2018 - 1:30pm, first published April 21 2017 - 12:00am
Health Minister Brad Hazzard speaks to media about patient correspondence discovered in a bin.  Photo: Nick Moir
Health Minister Brad Hazzard speaks to media about patient correspondence discovered in a bin. Photo: Nick Moir

MORE than 700 public patients have had their privacy breached and treatment potentially delayed after more than 1600 medical letters were found dumped in Sydney bin.

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