What percentage of staff at your organisation have confidentiality clauses in their employment contracts OR severance agreements?
A2. All contracts carry the following statement: CONFIDENTIALITY AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION CODE OF CONDUCT FOR CONFIDENTIALITY Through the course of your employment you may become aware of confidential information concerning staff, patients or health service business. It is very important that the hospital collects any necessary data lawfully, fairly and accurately. This includes information held on computers and computer printouts. Trust employees are required to ensure that information about patients is safeguarded to maintain confidentiality and is kept securely in accordance with the NHS requirements of 1999, (the Caldicott Committees report on the review of patient identifiable information 1997 and HSC/1992/012). This means that patient information can only be passed to someone else if it contributes to the provision of care or the effective management of health care services within the Trust. It must only be held and used for specified purposes and may be accessed, altered, discl
