Health visitors and confidentiality.

Confidentiality and connecting for health.

2008 may be the year when GPs find themselves in the firing line over confidentiality, as ever more patients try to opt out of ‘the NHS database’ and the government tries ever more desperately to keep the project on track. I believe this should not be seen as a problem, but an opportunity — a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make a decisive change. By acting as the patient’s advocate, GPs can, not ...

Privacy, confidentiality and automated health information Privacy, confidentiality and automated health information systems

Professor Vuori's paper, first presented at the fourth Medico-legal Conference in Prague in the spring of this year, deals with the problem of the maintenance of confidentiality in computerized health records. Although more and more information is required, the hardware of the computer systems is so sophisticated that it would be very expensive indeed to 'break in' and stealfrom a modern data b...

The Training of Health Visitors

Ten years ago tliere seemed little hope of unanimity of opinion among medical officers of health concerning the qualifications of health visitors. Some administrators in the public-health service considered that general nursing training was necessary, some thought a certificate of the Central Midwives Board sufficient, while others advanced the view that it was essential that candidates for app...

Confidentiality and Mental Health/Chaplaincy Collaboration

Confidentiality can both facilitate and inhibit working relationships of chaplains and mental health professionals addressing the needs of service members and veterans in the United States. Researchers conducted this study to examine opportunities for improving integration of care within the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Interviews were conducted with 198 ...

Consent and confidentiality in adolescent health care.