Confidentiality guidance: Contents

	Paragraph
About this guidance	1-5
Principles	6-11
Protecting information	12-16
Disclosures required by law	17-23
Disclosures required by statute	17-20
Disclosures to courts or in connection with litigation	21-23
Disclosing information with consent	24
Circumstances in which patients may give implied consent to disclosure	25-32
Sharing information within the healthcare team	25-29
Local clinical audit	30-32
Disclosures for which express consent should be sought	33-35
The public interest	36-56
Disclosures in the public interest	36-39
Research and other secondary uses	40-50
Disclosures to protect the patient	51-52
Disclosures to protect others	53-56
Disclosures about patients who lack capacity to consent	57-63
Disclosures when a patient may be a victim of neglect or abuse	63
Sharing information with a patient's partner, carers, relatives or friends	64-66
Genetic and other shared information	67-69
Disclosure after a patient's death	70-72
Glossary
Legal annex
Endnotes