NHS - Wirral Health Service - Freedom of Information

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About the Freedom of Information Act

Code of Conduct on Confidentiality

Bebington & West Wirral PCT

Birkenhead & Wallasey PCT

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Trust

Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology

Wirral Hospital NHS Trust

Freedom of Information


	Caldicott Home

	Endorsements

	Background to Caldicott

	Principals of Caldicott

	Definitions

	Ensuring Confidentiality

	Disciplinary Proceedings and the Law

	Agreements to be signed

	Appx 1 - Data Protection Principals

	Appx 2 - Access to Information

Code of Conduct on Confidentiality
and handling personal identifiable information
March 2002

This is a generic Code of Conduct for all Wirral NHS staff and covers personal information concerning staff as well as patients.

All Wirral NHS organisations work to a "Code of Conduct for handling personal identifiable information". Working to the same Code of Conduct helps ensure a more unified approach across the NHS organisations to the way NHS staff handle, store, transfer and general work with personal information. This also helps ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act www.dataprotection.gov.uk.

The Health Service holds large amounts of confidential information about you, members of your family, friends, and colleagues; but the vast majority of this information will be about strangers, most of whom you are unlikely to meet. The information belongs to them and we are merely the custodians. Their information should be treated with as much respect and integrity as you would like others to treat your own information. Handle with care, it is your responsibility to protect that information from inappropriate disclosure and to take every measure to ensure that personal identifiable information is not made available to unauthorised persons.

This Code of Conduct on confidentiality aims to clarify the principles that govern all use of personal identifiable information and to ensure that certain practices are adhered to. None of these practices are onerous and they should already be in every day use. We re-state them as an expectation of how systems should be maintained in Wirral NHS.