RIPA Debate

[Ian G Batten]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> What duty would I as a doctor have to that third party to 
> prevent an inference attack ("there is only one person who could 
> have told you that..., and I'm going to kill them when I get 
> home") from certain material in the notes?

What is unsubstantiated material from third parties doing in
someone's notes anyway?

> But there are obvious ways of examining this, including getting 
> a second or third opinion from another member of the specialty, 

I recall reading recently that the NHS doesn't believe you have a right
to a second opinion and can refuse you it (on any topic).

> discussion with the patient's GP and so on, and of course the 
> courts.  Presumably this cas eof which I know nothing is sub 
> judice?

It was in the Graun, page 3, a couple of months ago, but I can't now
locate in in their archives.  Which may mean it is indeed sub judice.

> > There's a case winding through in London
> > about this very topic, about a woman (from memory, a nurse
> > working in one of the London teaching hospitals, but I could
> > be wrong) who believes that her condition has been
> > characterised as hysterical and delusional in her records, and
> > has now been denied the right to see her own records.
> 
> Would this be likely to be employment rather than medical?

No, it's about her being refused treatment.  But see above.

ian