An NHS ambulance spot is investigating accusations that unit inappropriately accessed the records of victims of the Southport attack.
The begetter of 1 of the young girls earnestly injured successful the July 2024 onslaught said helium was "appalled" astatine the anticipation and accused unit astatine North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) of wanting to "satisfy their ain morbid curiosity".
It comes aft it emerged successful May that dozens of workers astatine Aintree Hospital, wherever immoderate of the injured were treated, had looked astatine the records with nary bully reason.
NWAS main enforcement Salman Desai said: "We person identified concerns astir imaginable inappropriate entree to diligent records and are formally investigating the matter."
Three young girls - Alice da Silva Aguiar, Bebe King, and Elsie Dot Stancombe - were murdered successful the attack, portion 10 others were physically injured.
The begetter of a miss who was 13 erstwhile she was injured but survived the onslaught said: "It is simply a implicit breach of spot successful our darkest hours arsenic a household and dampens however you consciousness astir the astonishing enactment they bash to prevention lives.
"It was already incredibly hard to deliberation that unit astatine Aintree infirmary had needlessly pried into our daughter's condition."
The antheral cannot beryllium identified owed to an anonymity bid protecting his daughter, who had been helping to supervise the creation people earlier she was stabbed successful the backmost and arm.
Solicitors acting for the miss and for different 21 of the 23 girls who survived the onslaught are calling for a full-scale reappraisal by NHS England into the guidance and disciplinary procedures for unit who inappropriately entree diligent data.
The calls travel aft different trust, NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG), admitted successful May that astir 50 unit members astatine Aintree Hospital had looked inappropriately astatine the aesculapian records of immoderate of the injured victims successful the days aft the attack.
Fletchers Solicitors, which is already investigating this breach, said the household were reviewing documents fixed to them by UHLG astir the breaches astatine Aintree, erstwhile they saw accusation that said unit from North West Ambulance Service mightiness person besides accessed their daughter's records without cause.
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