NHS employees who are tempted to look at patient records without a valid legal reason should consider the potential implications for both themselves and the health service. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued the warning after an NHS administrator was fined for repeatedly accessing a patient’s medical records without a valid legal reason. Nicola Wren…
Category: Healthcare
Will UK doctors have to ask patients if they are gay and record their answers?!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Trying to determine the health needs and prevalence of problems for LGBT patients in the UK has seemingly led to a totally disgraceful position that doctors should routinely ask – and record answers to – questions about patients’ sexual orientation. Stephen Adams reports: Every patient visiting…
Nurses at Asesewa Hospital accused of revealing information of HIV/AIDS patients
Some nurses at the Asesewa government hospital have been accused of breaching confidentiality and patients’ charter developed by Ghana Health Service, by divulging health status of their clients particularly persons living with HIV/AIDS. According to some residents in Asesewa township, the behaviour of the nurses is preventing many patients particularly those with sexually transmitted diseases,…
Ca: Ex-cop fined $7,500 for accessing daughter’s health records
Dean Pritchard reports: In what is the first case of its kind in the province, a former Manitoba Health employee who accessed the medical records of his estranged daughter has been fined $7,500. The 58-year-old accused, a retired city police officer, was convicted after trial earlier this year of one count of accessing personal health…