More NHS staff sacked over attacks victims' records

Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were stabbed to death . Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and grandfather Ian Coates, were stabbed to death on , who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020. In May, Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust confirmed it had dismissed 11 members of staff and, in an update on Friday, said a total of 15 people had now been sacked as part of its investigation. Two cases were found to have no case to answer and no action was taken. The trust said action had been taken against "doctors, nurses, registered healthcare professionals and other staff" and that independent regulators such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council and General Medical Council, the Information Commissioner's Office, and Nottinghamshire Police had been informed. A new system, currently under testing, is being implemented to protect patient records in future and alert the trust of potential breaches. A Your Responsibility, Your Actions, Their Privacy campaign has also been carried out to educate staff about data protection and the "serious consequences" of not following the rules, it added. Shehmar said: "We will continue to investigate inappropriate access to these records and take action as and where necessary. "Alongside this, we are doing all we can to educate our staff on appropriate access and how to keep the records of our patients safe. We are also introducing a new system which acts to detect possible data breaches. "While the actions of these staff members are disappointing, we know that this represents a small number of our wider workforce. "We know staff across the trust are listening, learning and doing what they can to ensure that only lawful and justified access takes place in our hospitals." NUH said investigations were continuing, including into inappropriate access of the files of the surviving victims of the attacks - Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski. The Nottingham Inquiry examined decisions made in the lead-up to fatal attacks on and the aftermath The first dismissals were made public amid a statutory public inquiry examining the lead-up to the attacks and decisions and actions taken in the aftermath. The judge-led Nottingham Inquiry, external heard from 164 witnesses during 14 weeks of harrowing evidence between February and June 2026, as well as two days of closing statements from core participants in September. The findings of the inquiry, which is being led , will be published by May 2027. The hearings scrutinised authorities that had interactions with Calocane in the years before the attacks, laying bare failures and missed opportunities by agencies, including the NHS and police.