A nurse at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary has been given a caution period of 12 months for accessing the medical records of patients when she was not permitted to do so.
After an in-depth hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Rachael Stephen was found to have used her position to access multiple patients' health records, as well as her own.
Stephen also changed her IT permission preferences to view patients out with the ward she was working on, without any clinical justification and/or permission.
