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Confidentiality involves protecting personal client information by keeping it private between the client and healthcare provider. It includes details about medical history, treatment, finances, and personal matters. Maintaining confidentiality helps build trust in the client-provider relationship. Healthcare providers must obtain informed consent from clients by fully explaining diagnoses, treatment options and risks so clients can make voluntary decisions.
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- 2. DEFINITION • Confidentiality is the protection of personal information. • Confidentiality means keeping a client’s information between you and the client and not telling others including co-workers,friends and family. • Other information relating to political opinions, religious ,health or sexual lifestyle should also be considered confidential. • All patient information ,whether written ,computerised , visually or audio recorded .
- 3. It covers…. • The individual’s past , present or future physical or mental health or condition. • Any clinical information about an individual’s diagnosis or treatment. • A picture ,photograph ,video ,audiotape or other images of the patient. • The past , present or future payment of health care to the individual.
- 4. Examples of maintaining confidentiality include: • individual files are locked and secured • support patients do not tell other people what is in a client’s file unless they have permission from the client • information about clients is not told to people who do not need to know • clients’ medical details are not discussed without their consent • adult clients have the right to keep any information about themselves confidential, which includes that information being kept from family and friends.
- 5. types of information that is considered confidential can include • name, date of birth, age, sex and address • current contact details of family, guardian • bank details • medical history or records • personal care issues • service records and file progress notes • individual personal plans • assessments or reports • guardianship orders • incoming or outgoing personal correspondence.
- 6. Importance of confidentiality One of the most important elements of confidentiality is that it helps to build and develop trust.
- 7. Consent in complementary medicine • The healthcare practitioner should present enough information in a language that the patient can understand. • The patient should be able to understand and appreciate the information that he/she has been provided so that he /she decides with full consciousness and awareness. • In complementary medicine , the patient’s consent should be made voluntarily without pressure or forcing he/she.
- 8. Before starting to treat a patient, all health care professionals – including of course alternative practitioners – have to obtain informed consent. This is not optional but an ethical and legal imperative. Informed consent must usually include full information on: • the diagnosis • its natural history • the most effective treatment options available • the therapy • its risks • its cost • a rough treatment plan