Patients' secrets dumped in alley
Medical records containing details of hundreds of Wigan patients have been found dumped by a former health centre.
Highly personal information in three diaries was discovered outside the disused building in Tram Street, Platt Bridge.
It includes names, addresses and medical complaints of patients requiring doctors' visits in 1988, 1990 and 1991.
A passer-by spotted the confidential documents while walking her dog in an alley behind the building.
The woman, who did not wish to be named, said: "They shouldn't have just been left in the street for anyone to pick up. I think it's disgusting.
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"There is a lot of private information that I wouldn't want people knowing about.
"This sort of information should have been removed when the surgery was closed.
"My grandmother, who has since passed away, has her details in one of the diaries. It was just horrible to know that they've just been discarded.
"The site has not been cordoned off so it makes you wonder what else has been left there and what is likely to be found."
A spokesman for the trust said that an investigation was now underway to determine where the documents had come from.
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