MPS Advises Doctors About Releasing Patient Information To The Police, UK

Increasing numbers of members are calling MPS unsure about what to do when the police come knocking demanding information about their patients. The police have been approaching hospital doctors and GPs to obtain patient information where they suspect that the patient has committed a serious crime. Medicolegal Adviser Pallavi Bradshaw, said: “In the first instance consent from the patient should be sought.

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Filed under: Primary Care on February 8th, 2008