Caldicott Training

There is some rubbish mandatory training within my LHB

but this one was well worth attending!!!

The training covered areas of the Caldicott report mainly to do with Confidentiality.
It is amazing how often confidentiality is broken without you being aware of it, e.g.
leaving the computer, with patient details on,when you leave a room .
Anyone can come into that room and have access to that computer and the patient details.
This is not something personally do but I have seen GP's and other colleagues do this.
There many examples given and I am sure that we all have be guilty of it at some point but I don't think any break in confidentiality is done maliciously. Many insidences sited made you think "oops! I have been guilty of that"It made me think about the position of power I am in and how vunerable patients are. A lot of information is shared about our patients and we need to think about how and when this information is going to be used.

I think that with e-mail and pathlinks etc information will be whizzing around and may be difficult to keep track off.

Perhaps we just need to stop and think a little more before we part with sensitive and personal information.
I know I will be.
Petula