Confidentiality and Privacy

About this activity

The session will look at what you need to do in clinical practice when handling, storing or sharing personal information to ensure that you fulfil your ethical, legal and professional obligations with regard to maintaining patient confidentiality. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to: • Describe the ethical basis of confidentiality • Identify the relevant law and professional guidance when considering disclosure without consent • Describe the General Medical Council (GMC) guidance on confidentiality with respect to the sharing and storage of verbal, written and electronic personal information, including the use of such information for research, teaching and audit purposes