Hi Lesley
If I ask a doctor for advice the information comes back to me and i
treat it as confidential between two medical professionals. I then see
the employee and let them see the report cotents advising them of what
I will pass on to HR. I then write my report, copy and paste parts of
the doctors report into it and stating something like... I am now in
reciept of the doctors report dated..... In it he stated ''............
I then put my opinion and plan.
In this way I have all the information from the doctor in the employees
notes and have agreed with the individual what is to be forwarded to
HR. No breach of confidentiality.
Hope this helps
Tracy
-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Maze <[log in to unmask]>
To: OCC-HEALTH <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:38
Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] OHP reports
Lesley,I just picked up this thread.
Youneed to make it very clear on your referral to the doctor whether
you require:
1. Areport for management – If you specify this, you should get a
simple reportthat that you can either forward directly to the manager
to act upon. At most,you might need to cut & paste the text onto your
own letterhead, with orwithout a preface such as “The doctor to whom we
referred your employee, gavethe following advice.” Of course, many GPs
and specialists don’t understandOH, or even the issues around giving
medical information to non-medical peopleand they may give excessive
detail. It’s up to you to review the reports whenyou receive them and,
if necessary, edit them for the recipient.
2. Amedical report – If you ask for this, the physician will assume
that you arepreparing the report to management and provide the medical
detail to permit youto do that. Some doctors may go to the other
extreme and send a basic (&basically useless) report to anyone who is
not a doctor. In this case, you mayneed to ask for a rewrite that
provides the information you need. You may alsoneed to emphasize that
while you are looking for information from the doctor, YOUare the one
who will give the advice to the employer, based on your
specificknowledge of the workplace.
Ifyou repeatedly have the same problem with multiple doctors, there may
be aproblem with the way you write your request letters. Rewrite these
so as toeliminate any misunderstanding by the recipient.
Ihope this helps.
Trevor
DrTrevor Maze
22Orpinsmill Road, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland BT39 0SX
t: 028 9332 3341
m: 0778 222 4890
f: 0870 134 0714
-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf OfLesley Bamford
Sent: 03 November 2011 12:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] OHP reports
Hi List,
I was just wondering what your process for OHP reportsis? I often refer
ad hoc to OHP's around the country who most often I have hadno prior
dealings with. I write the referral letter including
anyspecific/additional questions that the company wants answering and
the reportgets sent back to me. Quite often there is no mention on the
report of whetherthe individual is aware of the content and who it will
be sent to. In mostcases the report contains brief medical info and
recommendations and I am happyto share it with the company HR. However,
sometimes the report is written asprivate and confidential to me and
contains a lot of medical detail that Idon't think is necessary for HR
to have. Employees are always informed that areport will be sent
following the referral but I do not ask for written consentas I think
that this is the responsibility of the OHP (I will end up asking
forconsent to obtain consent next!). Do you police what information out
of thereport goes to the company or do you trust that the OHP has
followed the FOMGuidance on Ethics for OHP's and obtained consent? IMHO
I do not think that Ishould have to make a descision on what part of
the report goes to HR surely itis up to the OHP to justify the content
of their own report if challenged. Ithink what I am getting at is, if
because the report has come to me, addressedconfidentially to me, do I
have any responsibility for sharing confidentialinformation? or should
I be able to assume that the OHP knows that the companywill ask for a
copy of the full report and just hand a copy over?
Can you point me in the direction of any documents/policyto clarify
this?
Sitting reading this back I feel a bit like a neuroticworrier (I am
definately not!) but I can't get this straight in my head.Sometimes it
just doesn't feel right.
I look forward to your responses. This list is such avaluable resource
for OHA's like me with no colleagues to discuss issues with.
Many thanks in advance
Lesley
********************************Please remove this footer before
replying.
OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES:http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html
CONFERENCES AND STUDY
DAYS:http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH
********************************
Please remove this footer before replying.
OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html
CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH
|