Also, the Clinical Librarian is an employee with a contract of employment that includes confidentiality whereas a schoolchild has no contract. Perhaps you could show a copy of the confidentiality part of the standard contract to the consultants.
Do your consultants not realise that receptionists, appointment clerks and other clerical staff have access to confidential patient information? In a hospital, patients' medical information is between the patient and the hospital team and is not restricted just to medical staff. The Clinical Librarian would be part of that team. Patient info should be on a need-to-know basis but it could be argued that the Clinical Librarian's informational skills will improve treatments for this patient and future ones.
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I'd be inclined to invoke CILIP's Ethical Principles (no 8: respect for confidentiality and privacy in dealing with information users) and Clause B 4 of the Code of Professional Practice. I'm not sure how this individual thinks we could function as a profession without such an ethical framework.
The comparison with school-children is absurd. The CL is part of the team.
Tom
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Sent: 22 April 2016 10:15
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Hi,
This is an international question so happy to receive answers from outside the UK for ideas.
I am trying to set up a clinical librarian service going on ward rounds in an ITU, and while most consultants are very happy and enthused about this, there is one who is worried about the privacy issue, I quote:
Patients medical details are between the patient and the medically qualified people looking after them. There is an issue of privacy here that needs clarification. When we have school children in doing work experience we have to get the consent of the patient to watch their operation etc. One has to be very careful about sharing personal data of pateints
He is not the only consultant I have run into with this issue (the other is Obs & Gynae) and I've lost a ward round because of this with that consultant as a result (ie he stopped having the ward round). As this may affect national roll-out of an LKS clinical librarian service (as well as this particular one), is there anyone out there who:
1) has run into this before
2) has an answer to this
3) are there any courses or anything out there which a clinical librarian could do that would answer these concerns that anyone knows of?
So far one of my friendly training doctors has suggested the GCP (good clinical practice) course to deal with the (again quote) - 'different risks and confidentiality of seeing patients on a ward to seeing people in a library' but this is really for people doing recruitment in trials, so I'm not sure it fits quite. To be fair she also thinks the objection is - irrelevant (not the word used) - because nurses, AHPs etc know about patients' conditions as well and this should all be covered by Trust confidentiality agreements and information governance training and CRB checks which is true. However this is the second person I've met who has these objections in this Trust and they have shared their unease with the whole department in this case, so I think this may be a problem that everyone trying to roll out a service might run into at some point and it would be helpful to have a standard answer to it (even if it means going to the GMC I guess.)
Does anyone have any ideas??
(possibly not having such a great day here ...)
Best,
Genny
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