{"id":663642,"date":"2026-06-29T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663642\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:25:26","slug":"records-of-boy-attacked-by-crocodile-accessed-by-40-nhs-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663642\/","title":{"rendered":"Records of boy attacked by crocodile accessed by 40 NHS staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An investigation is underway after the medical records of a three-year-old boy hurt in a crocodile enclosure <\/a>were accessed by dozens of hospital staff.<\/p>\n

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) has referred itself to the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) and is investigating whether all of the 40 workers had a legitimate reason for looking at the boy\u2019s information.<\/p>\n

The boy, from Cambridgeshire, ended up in a zoo\u2019s crocodile enclosure <\/a>and is now in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

He was taken to Addenbrooke\u2019s Hospital, run by CUH, last Thursday following the incident at Johnsons of Old Hurst.<\/p>\n

A 30-year-old man from Norfolk was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and later bailed after he was \u201cassessed as not being fit for interview\u201d.<\/p>\n

The suspect reportedly has learning difficulties and had been on a trip with carers.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice at Johnsons of Old Hurst, in Huntingdonshire (PA)<\/p>\n

A CUH spokesperson said: \u201cWe have strict policies in place to safeguard patient data and we take any breach extremely seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know the vast majority of our 13,000 staff understand the fundamental importance of maintaining patient confidentiality and uphold the highest professional standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere any member of staff is found to have accessed patient records without legitimate clinical or operational reasons, we take robust disciplinary action, including dismissal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of our response to any breach, we notify both the ICO and apologise to patients and their families affected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cambridgeshire Police<\/a> said on Monday the boy was \u201cno longer critical\u201d and was \u201cin a stable condition in hospital\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is understood that he was attacked by at least one crocodile after he was allegedly thrown into the enclosure.<\/p>\n

\"AA 30-year-old man has been arrested and bailed (PA)<\/p>\n

Police were called to the zoo<\/a> at 1.24pm on Thursday by the ambulance service to reports that a three-year-old boy had suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Cambridgeshire Police said the boy \u201csustained serious injuries while in the enclosure\u201d and \u201cwas pulled out by staff from the zoo\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tracey Johnson, the wife of the zoo owner, reportedly jumped into the enclosure to save the child.<\/p>\n

Last week, a former healthcare worker was cautioned by the ICO for trying to obtain and sell the medical records of the Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663642","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=663642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}