Patient confidentiality / editor John Tingle.

Welwyn, Hertfordshire. : EMIS Professional Publishing, 2002.

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Confidential communications -- Physicians -- Great Britain.

Medical records -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.

Medical ethics.

Privacy, right of.

Confidential communications.

Part I The law

1. Medical confidentiality and the law

2. Statutory protection of medical records

Part II The policy

3. Medical governance

Part III The practice

4. Confidentiality : simple risk-management measures

5. IT responses to confidentiality issues

6. Patient confidentiality : the trust perspective

7. An individual GP's concerns about patient confidentiality

Appendices

1. Health and Social Care Act s60 and s62

2. Caldicott Report

3. Building the information core

4. Information Commissioner's Guidance.

Includes index.

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xix, 232 p.: ill.