{"id":658898,"date":"2026-06-26T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658898\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:09:08","slug":"crocodile-attack-hospital-probe-after-boys-records-accessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658898\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile attack: Hospital probe after boy&#8217;s records accessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A hospital has launched an investigation after the medical details of a child seriously injured in a crocodile pit were accessed by up to 40 members of staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-year-old boy, who is now in a stable condition at Addenbrooke&#8217;s Hospital in Cambridge, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2kqxe55z1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacked in the enclosure at Johnsons of Old Hurst near Huntingdon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) said it was exploring if there were legitimate reasons for the records to be accessed and it had referred itself to the Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Where any member of staff is found to have accessed patient records without legitimate clinical or operational reasons we take robust disciplinary action,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers said they were called to the zoo at 13:34 BST on 18 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the boy, who was from Cambridgeshire and visiting the zoo with his family, sustained serious injuries &#8220;while in the enclosure&#8221; and was pulled out by members of staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 30-year-old man from Norfolk was subsequently arrested and bailed on suspicion of attempted murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hospital has launched an investigation after the medical details of a child seriously injured in a crocodile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}