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Online GMC Consultation February 2008 - Confidentiality: protecting and providing information (26/02/2008)

Please see the GMC website: www.gmc-uk.org for more information on the consultation they are running. 1. Is maintaining confidentiality an important professional value for the medical profession, or...

Mother loses 'right to know' case

Records, Confidentiality and Computers (triple helix - spring 2005)

Over the next few years there will be a revolution in the way personal information about patients is managed in the NHS. We are told that: '…every patient's medical and care records will be held electronically and will eventually be available securely online. The information will be safely and easily...

Confidentiality - Christian Virtue or Christian Necessity? (nucleus - summer 1994)

The Oath is most unlikely to have originated in the Hippocratic school. Probably it came from Pythagoreans[2] who, like Christians today, were committed to respect for human life and the value of people as individuals. Christians adopted the Oath and a version 'from the Oath according to Hippocrates in so...