The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7207 p97-101
20 July 2002

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Confidentiality

A gross intrusion

From Mr P. Henderson, MRPharmS

A recent article informed us that all members of the health care team faced a fine of £5,000 if they did not reveal "confidential" information to those now authorised to receive it (PJ, 18 May, p673). I have been expecting to see letters of protest from members and even from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society itself, but I have seen none.

The regulations quoted are, in my opinion, a gross and unnecessary intrusion into confidentiality. I am doing my little bit by making as many people as I can aware that patient "confidentiality" is now a thing of the past.

Philip Henderson

Bournemouth

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