Your health details *are* confidential: clinical governance, best
practice and occupational health standards require that you take actions
to provide protection to your patients (if there is a risk of infection
from you or your staff) and to your staff who might be at risk of
infection.
Surely the requirement is for a statement that all relevant at risk
staff have been offered appropriate protection: x have completed the
course and immunity identified: y have completed the course but not
developed immunity: z refused immunisation after counselling.
Risk assessment to:-
a. patients
b. staff
Further action contemplated.
**WHY** do they need the names?
(Don't suppose anyone is interested in the risks involved....
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<[log in to unmask]>, John
Glasspool <[log in to unmask]> writes
>my health details are confidential - the same as everyone else's.
>However, I find that when it suits some people, doctors seem to have
>less rights than the rest of the population.
>
>2009/12/9 Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]>
> In message <
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> >, Saul Galloway <[log in to unmask]> writes
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>> Coming at it from a patient/consumer perspective, if I asked a
>> hospital/practice if their staff had been appropriately vaccinated
>> /
>> tested as non-contagious, and the healthcare professional
>> replied
>> "none of your bloody biznis wot Ive been vaccinated for and
>> when" I
>> would take a dim view of the individual and organisation.
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>
>
> Isn't this the point?
> If the request is general - and clinical governance: "are your staff
> in these job roles (is there any obligation for clerical staff to have
> Hep B vaccination simply because they work in a health setting?)
> immunised against Hep B with documented follow-up?" it isn't a
> problem.
> Providing personal details of individuals is.
>
> --
> Mary Hawking
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Mary Hawking
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