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When social media use turns to cyber bullying
Case study: Farah is a clinical psychologist who has been complaining about colleagues to her close family and friends on social media
Disclosing information to regulators
There are a number of regulators – such as the General Medical Council, the Care Quality Commission and us – who may need you to pass on information to them
Disclosing information by law
Sometimes, you may be asked for information directly under the law – for example, if a court has ordered you to disclose the information
Disclosing information with consent
In most cases, you will need to make sure you have consent from the service user before you disclose or share any identifiable information
Consent and confidentiality
It is important that you get the service user’s permission, or ‘consent’, before you share or disclose their information or use it for reasons which are not related to the care or services you provide for them
Keeping information safe
You need to take all reasonable steps to protect information about service users. By ‘reasonable steps’, we mean that you need to take sensible, practical measures to make sure that you keep the information safe.
What information is confidential?
Information about a service user can be ‘identifiable’ or ‘anonymised’, by identifiable information we mean any information you hold about a service user that could identify them, you must treat this information as confidential
Introduction to confidentiality
Confidentiality means protecting personal information, this information might include details of a service user’s lifestyle, family, health or care needs which they want to be kept private
Key principles of confidentiality
You should keep the following principles in mind when handling information
Sole practitioners' group
Case study: Carl is a podiatrist working in independent practise. He is a sole practitioner and has run his business for 10 years