A NHS trust took 3 years to conduct proper criminal records checks on its doctors and nurses, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Mirror report:

Doctors and nurses worked in the NHS without proper criminal ­record checks for as long as THREE YEARS.

Among those who slipped through the net were paediatric staff, who are classed as high risk because they treat children.

Details of the shocking CRB blunder at the Barts Health NHS Trust have emerged in a Freedom of ­Information report obtained by the Health Service Journal.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.