[2] One of the main issues that led to him blowing the whistle was the thousands of X-ray films and scans that were left lying around, lined up in a London hospital's dirty corridor and stayed that way unchecked for years.
As a result of this being brought to attention the senior doctor who revealed the scandal, namely Dr Otto Chan had been sacked.
[citation needed] Some of the 15,000 packets of films and scans were kept in the corridors because the hospital lacked the money and means to analyse them all.
On other occasions, patients' x-ray films were hidden or rather locked in the car boots of consultants because they were so worried they would go missing.
[5] The police said that he had breached the Theft Act by promising in the posters that there would be no questions asked if the property was returned.