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GPs play a pivotal role in identifying children at risk and should be familiar with local child protection procedures.
Patients with mental disorders or learning disabilities do not necessarily lack capacity to consent to disclosure of confidential information.
Text messages are a low-cost and low-effort way for GPs to keep patients updated, particularly for large-scale communications such as flu jab reminders.
Doctors and other healthcare professionals have a duty to be alert to signs of domestic abuse.
A confidentiality question arose after an MDU member was asked to disclose information about a patient who potentially posed a threat to a public figure.
You might sometimes need to remove or redact information from medical records when sending them to patients or third parties. Here's what you need to know.
A new online resource explores and supports the concept of second victims among healthcare professionals involved in adverse clinical incidents.
Your duty of confidentiality to a patient continues after their death.
Emergency departments are like a canary in the mine for the NHS, says the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.