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NHS Private pakring companys, and patient confidentiality
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From my understanding Patient confidentiality is one of the things that NHS trusts take seriously.
If for example a Father or a Husband called a Hospital and asked if his adult daughter/wife/relative had visited the clinic, then under patient confidentiality rules the Hospital would be unable to share that information.
If the patient happened to use the car park, and the relative was/is the RK of a vehicle that then received a parking charge notice, couldn't this be seen as a breach of the oh so important patient confidentiality?
In some family's/communitys such a breach could cause at the best embarrassment and at worse could put someones life in danger
The PPC model of writing to the RK should have no place at an NHS/Hospital site
If for example a Father or a Husband called a Hospital and asked if his adult daughter/wife/relative had visited the clinic, then under patient confidentiality rules the Hospital would be unable to share that information.
If the patient happened to use the car park, and the relative was/is the RK of a vehicle that then received a parking charge notice, couldn't this be seen as a breach of the oh so important patient confidentiality?
In some family's/communitys such a breach could cause at the best embarrassment and at worse could put someones life in danger
The PPC model of writing to the RK should have no place at an NHS/Hospital site
From the Plain Language Commission:
"The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
"The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
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How does the knowledge that someone has been in a hospital car park put their life in danger?
There is no information shared at all about the reasons they were there.All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
How does the knowledge that someone has been in a hospital car park put their life in danger?
it would, if my wife found I had been treated for syphilis!!!!0 -
The life in danger is probably too strong an argument but I see your angle on knowing that someone visited a hospital. But then if you are the registered keeper of a car and you have allowed someone else to drive your car, it is ok to tell you where the car has been and has allegedly contravened something. Same applies for a hire car I suppose.0
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