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When confidential information is shared within the care team, only information that is relevant, necessary and proportionate should be shared. Close attention must be paid when applying this test to avoid compromising care.
Mar 9, 2022 · Members of a care team should share confidential information when it is needed for the safe and effective care of an individual. Information that is shared for the benefit of the community should be anonymised.
Note that if an individual objects to sharing, it may be that the confidential information cannot be shared. There are two principal ways that sharing identifiable confidential information may be allowed without consent of the individual
Mar 28, 2023 · Relevant information should be shared to ensure that patients receive safe and effective care. Consent can be implied when sharing relevant information with those who are directly involved in providing care to a patient unless they have indicated an objection.
- Accessing Personal Health Records
- Accessing Someone Else’S Health Records
- Sharing Confidential Patient Information
- Electronic Health Records
- NHS Data and Cyber Security
- Patient Data, Apps and Artificial Intelligence
Individuals have a right to access their own health records and in limited circumstances, to access information about other people. Since 25 May 2018 this has been governed by the Data Protection Act 2018. Record holders cannot charge patients for accessing records, the exception to this is where requests are “manifestly unfounded or excessive”. In...
Children aged 12 or over are generally expected to have capacity to give or withhold consent to the release of information. However, the guidance says every reasonable effort must be made to persuade the child to involve parents or guardians. A deceased patient’s health records are still protected under the Access to Health Records Act 1990and some...
Policies on confidential patient data seek to strike a balance between the protection of patient information and the use and sharing of information to improve care, such as for research purposes. Patients have the right to privacy and confidentiality and to expect the NHS to keep their confidential information safe and secure. Patients also have th...
Since 2014 the NHS has committed to making patient records largely paperless with the introduction of various online records. The initial target for this transition was 2020 but this was pushed back to 2023. In February 2022, the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, set a target for 90 per cent of NHS trusts to use Elect...
The National Data Guardian (NDG) for health and care undertook a review of NHS data security in 2016 which set out a number of recommendations to improve cyber security. In the wake of the 2017 WannaCry cyber attack, which impacted on 80 of the 236 NHS Trusts in England and is estimated to have cost the NHS £92 million, the Government accepted the ...
In June 2022 the Government published a strategy, Data saves lives, setting out the Secretary of State’s vision for how patient data should be used “to bring benefits to all parts of health and social care” and to “demonstrate that the health and care system is a trustworthy data custodian”. The strategy also makes reference to patient involvement ...
- Alex Bate, Elizabeth Parkin, Philip Loft
- 2021
Sep 1, 2024 · This means making sure you keep electronic records secure and that they can only be accessed by the appropriate people. You should have an effective system in place for restricting access to the records – for example, personal logins and effective passwords.
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Feb 10, 2023 · This guidance only covers what consent means in relation to using and sharing confidential patient information. An example of confidential patient information is a letter from the hospital to a patient’s GP setting out what treatment the patient received during a hospital stay.
