Confidentiality

Question 1

What are the four domains of Good Medical Practice?

Answer 1

Knowledge, skills and performance
Safety and quality
Communication, partnership and teamwork
Maintaining trust

Question 2

What is the common law for confidentiality?

Answer 2

Information acquired by doctors in their professional capacity will generally be confidential under the common law.

Question 3

What is the GDPR?

Answer 3

General Data Protection Regulation established in 2018

Question 4

What six things does GDPR state about data?

Answer 4

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, relevant 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

Question 5

What are eight situations in which confidentiality can be breached?

Answer 5

With the patient’s consent
With other medical practitioners in the patient’s interest
In the doctors own defence
Statutory requirements – prevention, detection and prosecution of serious crime
When directed to by a court of law
Protection of other persons
In the public interest (terrorism, murder, culpable homicide, rape)
Child abuse

Question 6

What NHS workers are in charge of maintaining patient data>

Answer 6

Caldicott

Data guardians