In 2018 February, I met a girl and fell in Love.
We decided to attend the NHS for sexual health checks. On her attendance, she provided my mobile number and her results were sent to me by text. Likewise, I provided the NHS Gum clinic with my girlfriends mobile number and my text results were subsequently sent to her. We subsequently got engaged.
However, I am a germophobe and I do about half a dozen different health checks every year and have been doing so for 20years.
The next year in 2019 May, I again attended the sex health clinic, this time on my own, and repeated the same health check as before. I then provided the clinic with my own telephone number and seriously charged them to make sure they send my results to no one but me, and they assured me that they had deleted my fiancees number from their systems and updated my profile with my own telephone number.
I went home and waited and waited but no results came my way; but 2 weeks after I did the test, my Fiancee attended my house and informed me that she had received a test result of some random person to her phone. As she was aware that the NHS had her mobile number, she did not connect the dots at first but thought that it was simply a mistake made by the NHS in sending someone else’s results to her, so she dismissed her thoughts and we had a good time.
However, a week later, she thought she would play the good-samaritan and phoned up the Gum clinic to inform them that they had sent her the result of a 3rd random innocent person as the results do not bear a name and is simply a standard message saying that your test results are clear! However when she phoned-up, the Clinic asked her to confirm her telephone number and when she did, the staff on the other end of the phone asked her if she was me and mentioned my name which then shocked my girlfriend. She then asked the office if I had been in for another text and they confirmed to her that I had been in (“don’t ask me why they did so as I cannot understand it myself”).
Anyway, my fiancee at the time was the feisty type, so She immediately attended my home in a fury, took off the engagement ring and slapped me on the face with it, stormed out and blocked all channels of commuincation as she accused me of cheating as she demanded to know why I would require a 2nd test.
Long story – short, I sued the NHS for a breach of the Data Protection principles, and they chose to pay me off and settled to avoid a trial.
