Navigating the Confidentiality Maze
DENTAL BULLETIN, ISSUE 49 Principle 4 of the GDC outlines the standards expected of dentists in collecting and protecting a patient’s personal information. Confidentiality is central to the doctor/patient relationship, and there is a clear obligation upon all medical professionals to keep personal details, medical history, treatments and the costs associated with it private. So in what...Read More
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Restrictive covenants; protecting your business
DENTAL BULLETIN, ISSUE 43 Making sure restrictive covenants are worth more than the paper they are written on You work hard to build up your practice, only for an ex-employee or ex-associate to leave, set up business down the road and take all of your patients with them. In most cases this will be a breach of the restrictive covenants in their contracts. When clients come to us with this...Read More
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How much information is too much information?
Amount of information and Human Rights The Supreme Court has ruled that blanket disclosure of all criminal convictions and cautions, regardless of how minor or how long ago is a breach of Human Rights Law (Article 8 – right to respect for private life). The court considered cases* involving a young man who had been forced to disclose youth warnings (the equivalent of an adult caution)...Read More
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