Key Facts

• Maternity records for women and babies from September 2011 to November 2022 were overwritten due to a "human error" during IT work.
• The trust restored clinical data like notes and test results but could not recover the history of who accessed those records.
• Police are reviewing whether this data loss impacts Operation Perth, an investigation into maternity deaths and injuries at Nottingham City Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre.
• The police have not identified a crime yet and are waiting for digital process analysis.
• The Information Commissioner’s Office was informed, and the trust is taking steps to improve its IT processes.
• The records were mistakenly overwritten when routine work intended for a radiotherapy database was run on the maternity database.
• Current maternity patient information was not affected, and there is no evidence of improper access or use of data after the incident.
• Families impacted by the wider maternity scandal had already been notified after a review found over 500 cases of avoidable harm or death.