Society produces new fact sheet on confidentiality
The Society's Professional Standards Directorate has produced a fact sheet for pharmacists on “Confidentiality, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the disclosure of information”.
The new fact sheet is the 12th in a series on areas of practice that
are frequently the subject of queries to the Legal and Ethical Information
Service. The 12-page document has three main sections. The first section
sets out the Code of Ethics guidance on confidentiality, the second summarises
the requirements of the Data Protection Act and the third looks at the
confidentiality implications of the Medicines Act 1968 and the Caldicott
review. Each section includes answers to a number of frequently asked
questions.
Appendices gives details of useful contacts and information sources and
set out guidance on processes for complying with requests from data subjects.
The previous fact sheets in the series are
• Controlled Drugs and
community pharmacy
• Controlled Drugs and hospital pharmacy
• The
Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc) Regulations 1994,
and the effect thereof
• The export of medicines
• The
use of unlicensed medicines in pharmacy
• Advertising
• Prescription
collection, home delivery and repeat medication services
• Pharmacy
and the internet
• Labelling of monitored dosages systems
and compliance aids
• Patient group directions
• Dealing
with dispensing errors
All the fact sheets can be downloaded as PDF files from the law
and ethics section of the Society’s website.
Pharmacists without internet access can obtain a copy by sending an A4
stamped, self-addressed envelope, marked in the left hand corner with
the number of the required fact sheet, to Professional Standards Directorate,
Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN.
No telephone requests will be taken.
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