Access to health records

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Access to health records

By Máté Hegedus-Gaspar
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Accessing patient information can be a slippery business, easily leading to disciplinary actin [Image: Jonathan Chilton-Towle]

Non-practising legal expert and pharmacist Máté Hegedus-Gaspar, looks at health professionals’ obligations around keeping patient information private

An investigation revealed that some hospital staff were accessing and looking at the x-ray images without a legitimate reason, in breach of the patien