Confidentiality – new GMC guidance (part 1) Diana Kloss looks at the revised GMC guidance taking effect in April 2017, and how it affects OH practitioners. After a year of consultation...
New blog: Consent to treatment Diana Kloss looks at the Supreme Court decision in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board. In this case, which has attracted a great deal of ...
Consent to treatment A 2015 Supreme Court decision is leading to changes in professional guidance for surgeons and other doctors, and emphasises the need for OH ...
New ‘Good practice guide’ on confidentiality and consent We have added the first ‘Good practice guide’ to this site. Good practice guides are meant as general guidance for practitioners...
Good practice guide: Confidentiality and consent on a management referral Good practice guides are meant as general guidance for practitioners to help them comply with the law and good practice, rather than explain...
Disclosure in the public interest Most occupational health professionals are very aware of their duty of confidentiality but not always well informed of those situations wher...
Does the manager know what OH knows? This is a topic which has caused much debate over the years and where the law is still not clear. The problem in a nutshell is this: an em...
DPA 1998: the Data Protection principles This part of the website preserves our web pages on data protection as the law applied before 25th May 2018. There are new pages on the GDPR...
Report for judicial proceedings The Court of Appeal has indicated that a claimant could not veto disclosure of a report where he (and his lawyers) had consented to him bein...
Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 Summary AMRA was designed to deal with requests for reports from GPs and clinicians for employment and insurance purposes. It requires: the ...
