Call for consent.

Australian Doctor,  November, 2005  

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RISK MANAGEMENT by Karen Kumar

BREACHES of patient privacy by doctors are often inadvertent, but when they happen it can take a long time to deal with the complaint.

Since December 2001, patients have had the right to access their health information under the Federal Privacy Act. A breach of a patient's privacy usually happens because the doctor did not seek consent from the patient to release information to a third party.

In the case of children, separated parents typically have joint parental responsibility so both parents can access their child's health information and ...

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