General Principles 16 Sample Clauses

General Principles 16. 3.1 It is vital that service users and carers can trust that personal information will be kept confidential and their privacy will be respected with professional and legal guidelines. However, it is important that those concerned with providing care to individuals have ready access to the information that they need to deliver it 16.3.2 All staff have an obligation to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information. This is complying with law, with their contracts of employment, and in many cases with professional codes of conduct. All staff should be made aware that breach of confidentiality could be a matter for disciplinary action and provides grounds for complaint and possible legal action against them 16.3.3 Whilst it is neither practicable nor necessary to seek an individual’s specific consent each time that information needs to be passed on for the particular purpose of delivering care and treatment to the individual the person’s informed consent, must be obtained whenever practicable and this should be reaffirmed at regular intervals. This is contingent on individuals having been fully informed of the uses to which information about them may be put. All agencies concerned with the care of individuals should satisfy themselves that this requirement is met. That is, practitioners provide relevant information leaflets, supported by verbal explanation of its contents (in appropriate format and language) 16.3.4 Clarity about the purposes to which personal information is put is essential, and only the minimum identifiable information necessary to satisfy that purpose should be made available. Access to personal information should be on a strict need to know basis 16.3.5 If an individual wants information about themselves to be withheld from someone, or some agency, which might otherwise have received it, the individual’s wishes should be respected unless there are exceptional circumstances. Every effort should be made to explain to the individual the consequences for care planning, but the final decision should rest with the individual 16.3.6 The exceptional circumstances which override an individual’s wishes when the information are:- Required by statute or court order, Where there is a serious public health risk of harm to other individuals Or for the prevention, detection or prosecution of serious crime where there is a serious health risk of harm to self (See Xxxxxxxx’s Safeguarding Adults Policy, and Procedures re Abuse and Protection of Vulner...
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