Is a care home allowed to share visitation records with sibling

biggysmaller

My mother's Social Care home discused my visit with my sister,. disclosing details of a private conversation. The sister shared this is information with other family members.
Where do I stand?

tightauldgit

Probably depends on what the content of the conversation was - if they were concerned for her welfare, safety or security after the conversation they may well have an obligation to disclose it to someone. 

On the other hand in general I would say that private conversations should stay private and if you have a concern you should raise it with the care home as a complaint. 

london21

As above, depends what the conversation was about. 

theoretica

Was the information shared about yourself or about your mother?  Is your mother competent to give permission for information to be shared, or does someone have POA, and if so who?

diystarter7

Does your mum have the capacity to make safe/informed decisions?

billy2shots

From the other closed thread it sounds like the OP went against care home policy and removed her mask causing issues when they asked her to wear it. 
The care home told the family member what had happened and that the OP had become abusive towards them even though they are only trying to minimise risk of infection to OPs mum, other clients and staff. 

Well within their rights to inform the other relative in my view. 

Pollycat

theoretica said:

Was the information shared about yourself or about your mother?  Is your mother competent to give permission for information to be shared, or does someone have POA, and if so who?

In another thread, the OP says his sister has PoA ' granted by a judge' but is unsure if that is true.
OP

More information required.
And what happened to your thread about being denied access to your Mum because you weren't wearing a mask?

biggysmaller

theoretica said:

Was the information shared about yourself or about your mother?  Is your mother competent to give permission for information to be shared, or does someone have POA, and if so who?

Information shared about my visit and conversation with manager. Sister was named as NOK, but I am Nok also. Sister is not friendly to me 

biggysmaller

diystarter7 said:

Does your mum have the capacity to make safe/informed decisions?

Severe dementia 

biggysmaller

Pollycat said:

theoretica said:

Was the information shared about yourself or about your mother?  Is your mother competent to give permission for information to be shared, or does someone have POA, and if so who?

In another thread, the OP says his sister has PoA ' granted by a judge' but is unsure if that is true.
OP

More information required.
And what happened to your thread about being denied access to your Mum because you weren't wearing a mask?

I thought i answered that 

biggysmaller

billy2shots said:

From the other closed thread it sounds like the OP went against care home policy and removed her mask causing issues when they asked her to wear it. 
The care home told the family member what had happened and that the OP had become abusive towards them even though they are only trying to minimise risk of infection to OPs mum, other clients and staff. 

Well within their rights to inform the other relative in my view. 

I objected ro wearing a mask initially. Care home staff are obligated to offer alternatives. They didn't. I was told that o would not see my mum. The manager was abrupt and not at all helpful. I obliged eventually and left on good terms with the manager, who also agreed she could have handled it better.