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From: ash.paul@... <ash.paul@...>Subject: Re: Question: Can patient info or medical records be provided to a third party?netrum-owner Date: Sunday, 3 July, 2011, 3:32 AM

Dear Group,I agree with Dr Buch, the two issues are completely separate.In the UK, we have two different Acts dealing with the two subjects.The first is the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and the second is theData Protection Act. Every UK hospital/Trust has a Caldicott Guardian(usually the Medical Director) whose responsibility is to uphold and belegally accountable for the Data Protection Act.In the UK, we are not allowed to give out named individual patientinformation, we are allowed to give out aggregated anonimised patientdata, but even here there are restrictions ie if the number of patientsin the same cohort are less than 5, we cannot reveal aggregated data, asthe chances are high that the patients can be individually identiified.Regards,AshDr Ash Medical DirectorNHS Bedfordshire>>> Dear Members,>> I am Dr JG Buch from PDU (Govt) Medical College, Rajkot and I haveworked for several years as PIO (Public Information Officer) of myinstitute since implementation of RTI act in 2005. Although informationregarding a patient is handled by PIO of the hospital, I have facedseveral similar situations.>> Information of a patient CANNOT be given to 'third' party under anycircumstances, even if asked under RTI. Patient's information is alwaysto be treated as confidential is can be denied.>> I have observed that discussion on this topic is confusing Rights ofthe Patients with the RTI act. The two issues are different.>> - Dr.

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Subject: Re: Question: Can patient info or medical records be provided to a third party?netrum-owner Date: Sunday, 3 July, 2011, 3:32 AM

Dear Group,I agree with Dr Buch, the two issues are completely separate.In the UK, we have two different Acts dealing with the two subjects.The first is the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and the second is the

Data Protection Act. Every UK hospital/Trust has a Caldicott Guardian(usually the Medical Director) whose responsibility is to uphold and belegally accountable for the Data Protection Act.In the UK, we are not allowed to give out named individual patient

information, we are allowed to give out aggregated anonimised patientdata, but even here there are restrictions ie if the number of patientsin the same cohort are less than 5, we cannot reveal aggregated data, as

the chances are high that the patients can be individually identiified.Regards,AshDr Ash Medical DirectorNHS Bedfordshire

>>> Dear Members,>> I am Dr JG Buch from PDU (Govt) Medical College, Rajkot and I haveworked for several years as PIO (Public Information Officer) of myinstitute since implementation of RTI act in 2005. Although information

regarding a patient is handled by PIO of the hospital, I have facedseveral similar situations.>> Information of a patient CANNOT be given to 'third' party under anycircumstances, even if asked under RTI. Patient's information is always

to be treated as confidential is can be denied.>> I have observed that discussion on this topic is confusing Rights ofthe Patients with the RTI act. The two issues are different.>> - Dr.

Buch

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