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Nurse struck off for whistleblowing is allowed back to work - The Times 13th October 2009
"A whistleblower nurse who was struck off after raising concerns about poor standards of care has won her fight to return to work.
Margaret Haywood secretly filmed the neglect of elderly patients for a television documentary and was struck off the nursing register for misconduct in April. "
Panorama nurse can return to work - BBC Health News 10th October 2009
"A nurse who was struck off the register for secretly filming care for the elderly at a Brighton hospital has won her battle to return to work.
The High Court approved a settlement between Margaret Haywood and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). "
Genetic disease patients may lose privacy rights to protect families - The Times 26th September 2009
New guidance for Britain’s 150,000 practising doctors could remove the right to confidentiality from patients with inherited diseases.
When a patient is found to have a gentic disease, such as certain forms of cancer, doctors will be obliged to inform relatives about potential risks to their health, the General Medical Council (GMC) says.
'The loss of genetic confidentiality will not erode patient rights' - The Times 26th September 2009
New guidance will not erode patient rights/ Dr Mark Porter A patient’s right to confidentiality is one of the cornerstones of medical practice but it has never been absolute. Indeed, in special situations a doctor has a duty to disclose confidential information — something that this latest guidance now spells out in far more detail than previous advice from the General Medical Council.
Doctors should over-rule parents if they refuse to tell children of inherited conditions - Daily Telegraph 26th September 2009
Doctors should over-rule patients who refuse to tell family members that they may have inherited potentially fatal conditions, under new guidance from the General Medical Council.
Doctors must report all knife crime injuries to police: guidance - Daily Telegraph 25th September 2009
Doctors must contact police if they suspect patients have been a victim of knife crime, under new GMC guidance.
Doctors 'must report knife crime' - BBC Health News 26th September 2009
Doctors in the UK should tell police every time they treat a victim of gun and knife crime, new guidelines from the General Medical Council will state.
They are also told they can breach patient confidentiality by giving police information if they believe a crime has or will be committed.
'Tweeting' breaches patient confidentiality - Daily Telegraph 24th September 2009
Medics posting messages on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are breaching patient confidentiality, according to a leading medical journal.
'Tweeting' medics expose patients - BBC Health News 24th September 2009
Medics posting messages on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are breaching patient confidentiality, a leading journal reveals.
Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association found examples of web gossip by trainee doctors sharing private patient stories and details.
Patients' medical records found in skip - Manchester Evening News 19th August 2009
CONFIDENTIAL medical records for dozens of hospital patients were dumped in a skip - then turned up in a garden 20 miles away.
The records - register notes from the Accident and Emergency department at Macclesfield Hospital - included sensitive details of more than 60 patients' physical and mental states.
NHS trusts warned over loss of patient data - The Independent 23rd July 2009
Health trusts must take greater care with data after losses which included patients' information being left on a bus, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said.
The ICO found five NHS organisations had breached the Data Protection Act and warned health bodies about the importance of making information secure.
Information about 23 patients was on the Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust ward handover sheet which was found on a bus.
Patients should store their health records with Google or Microsoft, says David Cameron - The Guardian 6th July 2009
Lib Dems complain that plan could give Google undue commercial advantage
Don't ask the public to care for its data - The Guardian 6th July 2009
The Conservatives want us to keep our own NHS records on services such as Google, but there are a few flaws in this idea
Patient records should be given to Microsoft or Google, say Tories - The Telegraph 6th July 2009
NHS patient records would be outsourced to Microsoft or Google under Tory plans, instead of being held on a central government database.
NHS medical records could be stored by Google or Microsoft under Tory plans - Daily Mail 6th July 2009
Health service records may be transferred to internet servers run by Google or Microsoft under plans being drawn up for the Tories.\n\nThe party has commissioned a review of the NHS computer system, which could see patients given the chance to have their medical notes stored by private firms.\n\nOne option is the healthcare provider Bupa. However, in the US, Google Health and Microsoft Healthvault offer popular services giving patients the control to access and move around their own medical records.
Google or Microsoft could hold NHS patient records say Tories - The Times 6th July 2009
Health records could be transferred to Google or Microsoft under a Tory government, The Times has learnt.
Patients will be given the option of moving their medical notes to private companies after the Conservatives said that they would replace Labour’s “centrally determined and unresponsive national IT system”.
Give doctors the basic information so they can save patients’ lives - The Times 6th July 2009
The principle that doctors should have access to anyone’s health records — be that person a regular patient or seen in Accident and Emergency late at night — is an important one.
But current attempts to hold health records on a vast central database, the Connecting for Health project, is a mess and way behind schedule. They should and could have sorted out at least the “summary care record” long ago, and the reason for the delay is very straightforward.
Ethics could sink Tory plan for Google or Microsoft health records - The Times 6th July 2009
The plan to transfer confidential medical records to internet servers run by companies such as Google and Microsoft is anything but straightforward.
The chance for patients to have 24-hour access to their doctor’s notes on password-protected websites will appeal to the middle classes and the “worried well” who already diagnose their ailments with the help of the internet. But there is a welter of ethical and practical difficulties that could yet scupper the idea and must be considered by Francis Maude and his Tory policy implementation unit before the plan can be approved.
Privacy concerns over Tory plans to farm NHS records out to private firms - Daily Mail 6th July 2009
NHS records could be transferred to private companies under plans being drawn up for the Tories.
The party has commissioned a review of the sprawling NHS computer system that may conclude patients should instead be given the option of moving their data to firms such as Bupa, or even Google or Microsoft.
More hospital trusts are failing on child protection, warns watchdog - The Guardian 18th June 2009
Nearly 6% of hospital trusts in England admit they are not meeting standards on child protection and patient confidentiality
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