Confidentiality Flashcards
Define confidentiality
The state of keeping or being kept secret
What are the four domains of Good Medical Practice?
- Knowledge, skills and performance
- Safety and Quality
- Communication, Partnership and Teamwork
- Maintaining Trust
Why is confidentiality key to the doctor-patient relationship?
Patients may avoid seeking medical help or may under report symptoms if they thik their personal information will be disclosed by doctors without consent
When is confidentiality shared legally?
Medical certificate of death
Under which law is information acquired by doctors in their professional capacity?
Common Law
When can doctors reveal confidential information?
When there is a legal basis for doing so
When did the New General Data Protection Regulations come into play?
24th May 2018
What does the GDPR state?
That data protection principles state that personal data must:
- Be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner
- Be processed for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not in any manner incompatible with those purposes
- Be adequate, relecant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes
- Be accurate and up to date
- Must not be kept for longer than is necessary
- Be Secure
What are the eight confidentiality principles?
- Use the minimum necessary personal information
- Manage and protect information
- Be aware of your responsibilities
- Comply with the law
- Share relevant information for direct care
- Ask for explicit consent
- Tell Patient
- Support patients to access their information
Name situations in which confidentiality can be breached
- With patients consent
- With other medical practitioners in the patients interest
- In the doctors own defence
- Statutory requirements - prevention, detection and prosecution of serious crime
- When directed by a court of law
- Protection of other persons
- In the public interest (terorism, murder, culpable homicide, rape)
- Child Abuse
