MTAS and other NHS websites

[PeteM]

vickyvicky@egypt.com wrote:
> I've only just stumbled across the list. I am a doctor and a 
> shortlister/interviewer in the present MTAS recruitment round.
> 
> The /info folder on MTAS had previously contained a series of useful 
> files, including some of the rules for carrying out interviews, 
> competition ratios etc. It was a virtual directory listing, and new 
> files were added to it periodically. It was clearly intended as a way 
> for Deanery and other staff to keep up to date with current information. 

That's very interesting. So they were accustomed to using the directory 
as a way of distributing non-public information.


> Someone presumably uploaded some highly confidential data into this 
> folder. A handful of people would have seen it. Unluckily for MTAS, one 
> of those people was Channel 4 News.

Oh come on. "Unluckily"? The data was deliberately forwarded to Ch4 News 
by a doctor, in order to embarrass DH.

-- 
Pete Mitchell