Medical Confidentiality Flashcards
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Good Medical Practice - 4 principles
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- Knowledge, skills and performance
- Safety and quality
- Communication, partnership and teamwork
- Maintaining trust
- Respect patients’ right to confidentiality
2
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Medical Confidentiality
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The state of keeping/being kept secret/private
- May disclose info/delay treatment if concerned about breached confidentiality
3
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Moral and Ethical obligations
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- Clear and not restricted to medical practitioners
- Children
- Deceased
- Exception: Medical Certificate of cause of death
4
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Legal requirements and restrictions
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Based on law of contract and equality
- Breach of confidentiality = breach of contract
- The Common Law
- GDPR
5
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Common Law
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- Derived from series of court judgements
- Information given/obtained in confidence should not be used/disclosed further except in certain circumstances
6
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General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
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- Any information relating to an identified/identifiable natural person
- 6 data protection principles
1. Lawfully processed
2. Specified, explicit and legitimate purposes
3. Adequate, limited and limited to necessary
4. Accurate and up to date
5. Not kept for longer than needed
6. Be secure
7
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GMC Outlines regarding GDPR
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- Minimum personal info
- Manage/protect info
- Aware of responsibilities
- Comply with law
- Share only relevant info for direct care
- Explicit consent
- Tell patients
- Support patients to access their info
8
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Circumstances which medical confidentiality can be breached
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- Patient’s consent
- In patient’s interest
- Protection of other persons
- Child abuse
- In public’s interest
- Doctor’s own defence
- Statutory requirements: serious crime
- Court of law direction
