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Julie Does your drug screening company provide feedback on amount of opiates found. I use one which would advise whether they thought the amount of opiates found was likely to be for pain relief or whether the levels were above this and therefore suspect? If the levels are at an accepatble level, then can OH/HR acknowledge that even if there has been confusion, opiates were taken appropriately? David -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Julie Lawlor Sent: 19 February 2009 13:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] Medical reports/HR Hello All, I need some advice please. Background An employee failed a drugs test after testing positive for cannabis. When he was retested a month or so later he tested negative for cannabis but positive for opiates. When questioned he said that he was taking cocodamol as prescribed by GP. Drugs test sent to lab, confirmed positive test for opiates but for dihydrocodeine and not cocodamol. I requested a medical report from his GP which I received today. In it it stated that he was prescribed cocodamol but this was 10 days after his last drugs test. I emailed my HR manager who requested a copy of his medical report for part of his investigation. I refused on grounds of confidentiality. HR manager isn't happy. Would I be able to gather information from the medical report and write a report for her without giving any medical information? HR manager is also saying that we (me) ammend the medical consent form so that HR/Management can gain access to the report. Am I right in thinking that GP's send different reports to people requesting them depending on who is asking for them ie OH/HR? Is this common between OH/HR regarding confidentiality and medical reports or am I just unlucky? Your help and advice would be much appreciated. Regards Julie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS http://OHJobs.drmaze.net OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION http://www.aohne.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS http://OHJobs.drmaze.net OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION http://www.aohne.org.uk