Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who make unnecessary checks on medical records held in the central electronic registry, could lose their jobs under last-minute legislation submitted by health minister Ab Klink.

The measures will be discussed in today’s cabinet meeting – the last to be hosted by outgoing prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende.
Patient groups have raised many concerns about the privacy aspects of the new register. They are also concerned that information may come into the hands of health insurance companies.
Last week a secretary at a healthcare institution was sacked after it emerged she had looked in the medical records of a man who had assaulted her daughter, the Volkskrant reported.