Well said.
Thank you
Noushin
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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Wendy Jones (Loughborough)
Sent: 04 May 2007 09:36
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Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] Access To Medical Records and the Data Protection
Act
Sue
1. The only time I would seek third party consent is for a psychiatric
report - these are usually labelled - "not to be released without
consent"; apart from anything else, these are the sort of reports where
they may be a need to make a judgement on whether anything in the report
could be damaging to the client to hear (and I would rather the
psychiatrist made that judgment!). If there was a large input from
another practitioner (e.g. the OHP) I may ask if they had any difficulties
with the release, again mostly in case of the "damage to the client" issue
2. Reports from HR etc I would definitely include; usually, a request for
access will be aimed to HR as well so they will pick it up from there
anyway, and it is reassuring to the client to see that everything matches
up. There is a danger that some managers write e mails/letters which are
really inappropriate, so it is improtant that they are trained to
understand the legal implications of this (I have only just realised that
managers don't keep all their messages neatly printed out and filed by
employee the way we do, so may not understand that we keep everything they
write!) A fall back option is to refuse to accept a really badly written
message, something along the lines of a phone call to say 'thank you for
your draft letter, are you sure that was what you really wanted to say?'
3. If it is in there, they have the right of access, no matter how
sensitive. It is a useful reminder to think first and write second when
making notes, I find a request for access is an excellent trigger to
reviewing whether my record keeping is good enough.
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