NHS trust issues public apology over Nottingham attacks medical data breaches

The medical director of an NHS trust has issued a public apology over "failures" at an inquiry after staff inappropriately accessed the medical records of the Nottingham attacks victims. Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust is investigating employees over data breaches in the aftermath of attacks carried out by Valdo Calocane, who killed three and seriously injured three others on 13 June 2023. The trust said last week 11 of its employees had been sacked after the first investigations into the data breaches. NUH medical director Manjeet Shehmar also apologised for "not considering" the surviving victims in initial investigations and vowed that the trust would "continue to learn". Calocane - who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020 - stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates. He then stole Ian's van and used it to strike pedestrians Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski, who were left with serious and life-changing injuries. After the killings and Calocane's sentencing in January 2024, it emerged staff at the trust had accessed the victims' records illegitimately in 2025, prompting an internal investigation. Shehmar beca