In message <[log in to unmask]>, Dr Alan Hassey
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>Mary Hawking wrote:
>
>> Is this from the patients' or the practice's point of view?
>> The *practice* may have "nothing to hide" in the sense that they have
>> not submitted fraudulent claims, but how many HA Directors would want to
>> risk their personal medical information being exposed to their staff?
>
>This chap said he didn't mind - HE had nothing to hide. I asked about
>his wife
>(or girlfriend, or even boyfriend!.......not amused)
Makes you wonder whether he understood the significance of cradle-to-
grave records, doesn't it? ;->>
Perhaps the wife/partner would? ;->
>> I know that HA staff have a duty of confidentiality - as does everyone
>> in the "NHS family"
>
>Responsibility yes - right to inspect no. Consent is explicit and
>informed NOT
>implicit, uninformed and extendable to the NHS family or any other close
>family
>group of 900,000.....
I agree .. Cain and Abel were brothers..
Mary
>
>Hmm - I'm really turning into an old nag about all this ;-)
>
>> Wasn't this where we came in? ;->>
>> Mary
>> >
>
Mary Hawking
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