On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 01:01:20 +0100
"Jeff Green" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If the representative of an insurance company phones the surgery and asks if
> one of their clients/your patients has made an appointment for an insurance
> medical are your receptionists allowed to answer?
I would say yes, if they are not on my list. You cannot breach
confidentiality of a patient if they have not yet become your patient.
However, if they are patients, unless I had already received the forms
with the consent enclosed, I would say no. (I know the
consent applies to the medical, but it would show that the patient has
agreed to the medical. Otherwise, how would the company know if the
forms had gone astray in the post?)
Cheerio,
Graham
'Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at
which one can die.'
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