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Human Rights: Should it Affect ICPs?

Human Rights: Should it Affect ICPs? Joiirrral of EDITORIAL Sue Johnson Venture Training G Consulting Ltd One of the current ‘hot potatoes’ in health care man- the disclosure of it”. This is a useful observation, as agement and delivery is the issue of human rights, and when we consider what confidentiality really means in in particular rights of privacy and how this should practical terms, the ownership of a patiendclient’s affect our record-keeping. record is not necessarily as important an issue com- The European Convention on Human Rights is an pared with that of how information about that international agreement that was set out in 1997, and at patient/client is disclosed to others. The question of the start of 2001 29 countries had signed up to it. The who ‘owns’ the record, be it the hospital or the idea is that those countries signing agree to make provi- Department of Health, or even the patiendclient sion for the contents of the convention within their themselves, precedes the practical issue of access - own country’s legslation. Within this agreement are how professionals obtain information from the record sections covering basic human rights issues like consent, in order to inform themselves and enable high quality privacy, research, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Integrated Care Pathways SAGE

Human Rights: Should it Affect ICPs?

Johnson, Sue
Journal of Integrated Care Pathways , Volume 6 (1): 2 – Apr 1, 2002
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© 2002 SAGE Publications
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10.1177/147322970200600101
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Joiirrral of EDITORIAL Sue Johnson Venture Training G Consulting Ltd One of the current ‘hot potatoes’ in health care man- the disclosure of it”. This is a useful observation, as agement and delivery is the issue of human rights, and when we consider what confidentiality really means in in particular rights of privacy and how this should practical terms, the ownership of a patiendclient’s affect our record-keeping. record is not necessarily as important an issue com- The European Convention on Human Rights is an pared with that of how information about that international agreement that was set out in 1997, and at patient/client is disclosed to others. The question of the start of 2001 29 countries had signed up to it. The who ‘owns’ the record, be it the hospital or the idea is that those countries signing agree to make provi- Department of Health, or even the patiendclient sion for the contents of the convention within their themselves, precedes the practical issue of access - own country’s legslation. Within this agreement are how professionals obtain information from the record sections covering basic human rights issues like consent, in order to inform themselves and enable high quality privacy, research,

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Published: Apr 1, 2002

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