An NHS worker has been handed more than £250,000 by a tribunal after she was sacked for looking up her own medical records. Clerical officer Sarah Austin used a computer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to access the files and those of her mother 141 times.
She sued the Trust for disability discrimination and breach of contract, arguing that her “fibromyalgia-related memory problems and anxiety caused her to be forgetful and anxious”.
The tribunal has now ruled in favour of Miss Austin, who is aged in her 50s, and awarded her £269,113 in compensation. Leeds Employment Tribunal Centre heard the NHS worker checked her own appointment dates and on three occasions checked her mother’s records to “allay her anxiety that she might have had
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