THE sheer number of Oxford Radcliffe Hospital staff who have access to your medical records is staggering.

While the trust insists there is no abuse or leaking of private medical history, it is still fourth highest out of 140 organisations across the NHS and that is a lot of information in a lot of hands.

Given recent calamities over Government bodies’ keeping data safe, the public is right to want reassurance that any new computer system will be 100 per cent secure.