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title: "Doctor’s in-room phone call that revealed patient details flagged as data breach in Guernsey"
id: "bmj-0-doctor-x2019-s-phone-call-in-front-of-patient-they-were-examining-flagged-as"
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published_at: "2026-09-03T14:46:28.000Z"
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# Doctor’s in-room phone call that revealed patient details flagged as data breach in Guernsey
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- **Published At:** 2026-09-03T14:46:28.000Z
- **Evidence Rating:** Journal Feed
## Executive GIST (TL;DR)
- A physician in Guernsey disclosed **confidential medical information** about one patient while taking a phone call during an examination with a different patient. - The incident was identified and described in the latest report from the **Guernsey Office of the Data Protection Authority**. - The breach came to light after the healthcare provider that employed the doctor reported the incident to the data protection regulator. - According to the report, the doctor stayed inside the examination room for the duration of the call and during that time identifying details of the patient were revealed. - The BMJ summary indicates some case specifics were not included in the short-form report; the full report or full text may contain additional details not present in the BMJ excerpt. - The story highlights an instance of a clinical setting lapse in confidentiality and the role of employer reporting to a data protection regulator. - No additional outcomes, sanctions, or recommended corrective actions were reported in the BMJ short text; those details were not provided in the source.
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Clare Dyer [Author affiliations](https://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100756.short?rss=1) 1. The BMJ A doctor in Guernsey revealed sensitive confidential medical information about one patient by taking a phone call while examining another patient, it has emerged. The breach of confidentiality was outlined in the latest report from Guernsey’s Office of the Data Protection Authority.1 This case came to light after the healthcare provider that employed the doctor reported the breach to the data protection regulator. The doctor remained in the examination room throughout the conversation, where the identifying details of the patient … [View Full Text](https://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100756.full) ## Log in ### Log in using your username and password [BMA Member Log In](https://bmjverification.bma.org.uk/validate/userdetails?url=https%3A//www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100756%3Frss%3D1%26variant%3Dshort%26sso%3D "Log in here if you are a BMA member.") 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