00:00Sensitive details of transplant patients were sent through an unencrypted pager system, NHS Blood and Transplants says.
00:08The information included patients' names, dates of birth and details of organs being offered or needed.
00:15NHSBT says it has stopped the practice and reported the data breach to the Information Commissioner's Office.
00:22It says it does not know whether the information was accessed or how many people may have been affected.
00:29Pagers have remained in the NHS despite plans announced in 2019 to phase them out.
00:36The devices can receive messages and work reliably in hospitals.
00:40But NHSBT says information is no longer being sent that way.
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