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GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE IN THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSION Maintaining Patient CONFIDENTIALITY
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GUIDELINES FOR G O ODPRACTICE
IN THE HEALTH CARE
PROFESSION
Maintaining Patient
CONFIDENTIALITY
“Promoting Quality Healthcare and Safeguarding
the Public is our Prime Concern”
1st Edition, March 2016
,
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.0 Introduction..............................................................................................................................1
2.0 Definition of Terms.............................................................................................................1
3.0 PatientConfidentiality.........................................................................................................................1
4.0 Patients’s Right to Confidentiality.......................................................................................2
5.0 Retaining Confidentiality....................................................................................................2
6.0 The Rights of Patients to Information.................................................................................2
7.0 Confidentiality when disclosing information to others providing health care...................3
8.0 Disclosure of information other than for treatment of individual patients...........................3
9.0 Confidentiality in the public interest..................................................................................4
10.0 Disclosure which benefits patients indirectly.....................................................................4
11.0 What is a breach of confidentiality?....................................................................................5
12.0 Patient consent to release confidential or privileged information..................................5
13.0 Who can consent to the release?.....................................................................................6
14.0 General management of confidentiality.............................................................................6
15.0 Why protecting patient confidentiality is still important....................................................6
16.0 Protecting information.......................................................................................................6
17.0 Confidentiality when disclosing information with consent...........................................7
18.0 Disclosures of information in the public interest..............................................................8
19.0 Confidentiality in Research and other secondary uses of information...............................9
20.0 Disclosures of information to protect the patient.............................................................9
21.0 Disclosures of information about patients who lack capacity to consent........................10
22.0 Disclosures of information when a patient may be a victim of neglect or abuse............11
23.0 Confidentiality on Sharing information with a patient’s partner, carers,
relatives or friends...........................................................................................................11
24.0 Confidentiality on Genetic and other shared information...........................................11
25.0 Confidentiality in publication of case-histories and photographs....................................12
26.0 Confidentiality in administration and financial audit....................................................12
27.0 Disclosure where Health Practitioners have dual responsibilities....................................13
28.0 Confidentiality in Children and other patients who may lack competence to
give consent......................................................................................................................14
29.0 Disclosure after patient’s death........................................................................................14
30.0 Disclosure in connection with judicial or other statutory proceedings............................14
31.0 Confidentiality in Electronic processing of Information...................................................15
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................15
References...................................................................................................................................15
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