{"id":691614,"date":"2026-07-14T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/691614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:47:08","slug":"southport-victims-dad-accuses-ambulance-staff-of-breaching-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/691614\/","title":{"rendered":"Southport victim&#8217;s dad accuses ambulance staff of breaching trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The father of a girl seriously hurt in the Southport attack has accused North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) of a &#8220;complete breach of trust&#8221; as it emerged it was investigating whether staff inappropriately accessed victims&#8217; medical records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He described the possible breaches as &#8220;appalling&#8221; and alleged some ambulance staff &#8220;just wanted to satisfy their own morbid curiosity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after it emerged in May that dozens of workers at Aintree Hospital, where some of the injured were treated, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgmpz1mxzd9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had looked at the records with no good reason.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NWAS chief executive Salman Desai said it was investigating after it had &#8220;identified concerns about potential inappropriate access to patient records&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three young girls &#8211; Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King, and Elsie Dot Stancombe &#8211; were murdered in the attack, while 10 others were physically injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The father of a girl who was 13 when she was injured but survived the attack said: &#8220;It is a complete breach of trust in our darkest hours as a family and dampens how you feel about the amazing work they do to save lives. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was already incredibly difficult to think that staff at Aintree hospital had needlessly pried into our daughter&#8217;s condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man, who cannot be identified due to an anonymity order protecting his daughter, had been helping to supervise the dance class before she was stabbed in the back and arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Solicitors acting for the girl and for another 21 of the 23 girls who survived the attack are calling for a full-scale review by NHS England into the guidance and disciplinary procedures for staff who inappropriately access patient data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The calls come after another trust, NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG), admitted in May that nearly 50 staff members at Aintree Hospital had looked inappropriately at the medical records of some of the injured victims in the days after the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fletchers Solicitors, which is already investigating this breach, said the family were reviewing documents given to them by UHLG about the breaches at Aintree, when they saw information that said staff from North West Ambulance Service might have also accessed their daughter&#8217;s records without cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of a girl seriously hurt in the Southport attack has accused North West Ambulance Service (NWAS)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-691614","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\/691614","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=691614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}