Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gbm5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T20:40:33.865Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Limits of confidentiality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Anthony Harbour
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

This paper has two objectives: to review some aspects of the law of confidentiality in the health care field and to evaluate how the law of confidentiality impacts on the processes of child protection.

Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , March 1998 , pp. 66 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998 

References

British Medical Association (1993) Medical Ethics Today: Its Practice and Philosophy. London: BMA.Google Scholar
Department of Health (1996) Protection and Use of Patient Information. Guidance from the Department of Health. HSG 96/18 & Lassl. 96/5. London: Department of Health.Google Scholar
General Medical Council (1995) Confidentiality. Duties of a Doctor. London: General Medical Council.Google Scholar
Home Office, Department of Health, Department of Education and Science & Welsh Office (1991) Working Together Under the Children Act 1989. A Guide to Arrangements for Inter-Agency Co-Operation for the Protection of Children from Abuse. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Oates, M. (1997) Patients as parents. British Journal of Psychiatry, 170 (suppl. 32), 22–27.Google Scholar
Toulson, R. G. & Phipps, C. M. (1996) Confidentiality. London: Sweet and Maxwell.Google Scholar
United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (1996) Guidelines for Professional Practice. London: United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.Google Scholar
A.-G. v. Guardian (No. 2) (1988), 3 All ER, 658.Google Scholar
W. v. Egdell (1990) 1 All ER, 835.Google Scholar
X. v. Y. (1988) 1 All ER, 660.Google Scholar
Re G. (a minor) (social worker: disclosure) (1996) 1 WLR, 1407.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.