[Margaret Pilkington]

As I said in a previous post, your medical records held by the surgery will have all of your personal contact details on it, plus of course your NHS number......and if these fall into the wrong hands, then some nefarious activity could occur which could leave you trying to pay off a debt that you didn't incur.

And as Ian points out people think that the intranet is a safer form of networking, when it has as many pitfalls as the internet....and one of the most serious is because people do not recognise its security failings.