Privacy, Patients and Payments – information sharing in the Court of Appeal – Panopticon

Posted October 16th, 2015 in confidentiality, human rights, judicial review, medical records, medical treatment, news, privacy by sally

‘The recent decision of the Court of Appeal in W, X, Y and Z v Secretary of State for Health, Secretary of State for the Home Department and British Medical Association [2015] EWCA Civ 1034 offers rich pickings for information lawyers. It deals with the status of information about medical treatment; it looks at the scope of common law protection for private and confidential information generally; and it illustrates how wider public law concepts can apply in the field of information sharing.’

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Panopticon, 16th October 2015

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