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A letter from Queen Mary's Hospital to Derek Harrell indicated that they had been unable to trace his medical records relating to his stay at the hospital in 1981.

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Rosamund Cooper told the Inquiry that after requesting copies of her medical records from the Manchester Children's Hospital, she was told that they could not be found.

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In his witness statement, Keith Leakey outlined the various policies relating to the destruction and retention of medical records at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust from 1980.

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In his witness statement, Keith Leakey described floods in 1998 and 2008 affecting medical records at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

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The policy changed in Lancashire so that the Trust's procedural documents were retained electronically.

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A fire due to arson at the site of (the then defunct) Sharoe Green Hospital in Lancashire destroyed 87% of the medical records being held and stored on the site.

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A fire destroyed a substantial amount of medical records and patient files held by the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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A flood damaged a substantial amount of microfilmed medical records held by the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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There was a flood in the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

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There was a fire in the Blood Transfusion Laboratory at the Trafford General Hospital which resulted in all paper records there being destroyed.

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Edward Massey was told that most of his records had been destroyed at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in a flood. He also applied to the Lancashire and South Cumbria Agency for his records and was told that they too had been destroyed.

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Professor Jane Eddleston was unable to confirm whether a flood at the Manchester Royal Infirmary had caused the destruction of records before 1986, although one staff member recalled a flood damaging the Infirmary's medical records library.

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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust was able to provide retention policies from 1999 onwards.

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Richard Raymond requested his wife's medical records but was told that they had been destroyed in a sewage leak at St Mary's Hospital in 2003 and was then later told that records were routinely destroyed after 15 years.

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The Trust told the inquiry that whilst a flood may have occurred at St Mary's Hospital, corporate records were only retained for 7 to 10 years so there was no information available.

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In his written statement, Alasdair Cameron stated that no medical records were available from the time of his operation, records were poorly stored in Scotland and it was believed they were "routinely destroyed after a set period".

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Sometimes documents recording environmental incidents have themselves been destroyed under retention policies.

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A man's request to "expunge" incorrect information in his medical records was granted.

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Identical entries are recorded in the medical records of a widow's husband and father-in-law. The two men shared the same name.

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A witness' son's medical records contain no information about when he was tested for, diagnosed with or informed of his HIV infection.

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