The Sydney Morning Herald reports 1600 medical letters were found in a Sydney trash bin, breaching the data of more than 700 public patients and an unknown number of private patients. The letters were from December 2016 and contained "treatment progress reports from specialist consultations," the report states. A sub-contractor for Global Transcription Services was meant to bring the letters home but "instead stuffed them into the bin." The incident has sparked the launch of a KPMG-conducted external review of all NSW public health facilities. "It's completely unacceptable ... We have to get right to the bottom of what has gone wrong here," said Health Minister Brad Hazzard. "This is a human system and things can go wrong occasionally ... but I want to be satisfied that we are doing everything possible to reduce the risk of human error."
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