A registered nurse has been suspended for four months after inappropriately accessing patient information, despite those patients not being in her care. Balvinder Toor, who worked in Palmerston North, accessed and viewed electronic clinical records of 34 patients on 173 occasions between October 1, 2011 and October 30, 2012. Whenever a staff member of the MidCentral District Health Board (MDHB) logged into the electronic management system they were met with a warning about patient confidentiality, and told that the system audits every access to patients’ data. Despite these warnings, Ms Toor repeatedly accessed the confidential information.
