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This 5 page paper considers the issues of privacy, including confidentiality and dignity in the context of healthcare and with reference to the National Health Service (NHS). The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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areas of the UK National Health Service (NHS). Recently a case of a breach of confidentiality saw a company publish letters for patients on its web site without their permission,
as such giving away confidential details about the care they had provided for them through the NHS (Hospital Doctor, 2005). This may be indicative of an underlying lack of knowledge
concerning the importance and the protections that exist for patient confidentiality (Soteriou, 2005). Areas were knowledge was lacking included the Data Protection Act and the common law duty of confidentiality.
Where patient information is not seen in terms of privacy then we ma also argue the practical elements of privacy that help a patent to retain dignity may also
be missing in some areas and require attention. The ability to give care but respect privacy and help maintain dignity may be seen as important, especially in terms of holistic
and long term care (Soteriou, 2005). To preserve this there is the need to consider the way care is given and the
way which privacy is respected. The concept of patient privacy and confidentially has been seen since the days of Hippocrates, but the regulation has been broadly down controlled by the
integrity of medical practitioners. This model was one which was mainly self-regulating, and to a lesser extent, in former days when payment was made for medical practitioners services, it was
also a model that was necessary for commercial survival; a patient would not consult a doctor who was indiscrete (Porter, 1999). In the past the profession was more fragmented and
competitive, the current paradigm of the NHS with medical practitioners mostly having a common employer (or contractor), is a relativity new situation (Porter, 1999). This indicated the need for rules
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