Hannah Pepper has to pay £1,028.75 after she was found to have illegally accessed 231 patient files
No mention of it so I 'm assuming the worst - to wit that she got to keep her job and the fine is all the punishment she's received.
Basically all she got was a slap on the wrist for an unforgivable breach of trust, utter lack of professional behaviour and giving in to pretty nasty urges.
I'd have insisted on her summary dismissal, a court order banning her from ever working in a similar position of trust again and fined her a lot more, a large part of which I'd earmark as compensation for those whose data she abused. (If unable to pay immediately, then attached from her salary in her next job.)
If the courts don't treat this sort of behaviour seriously, it's never going to stop.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
