Making Families Count Webinar: Confidentiality and information sharing with families -Addressing legal concerns

The following are links the resources mentioned in Dr Zoe Picton-Howell’s talk for Making Families Count Webinars on 3rd May 2023 and 11th October 2023

SHARE Consensus Statement

SHARE: consent, confidentiality and information sharing in mental healthcare and suicide prevention – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Information sharing and suicide prevention: consensus statement – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

European Convention of Human Rights Articles

Article 2: The right to life

Article 8: The right to a private and family life

Article 5: The right to liberty and security

Domestic Legislation and Codes

Access to Health Records Act 1990

Data protection: The Data Protection Act – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Data Ethics Framework: legislation and codes of practice for use of data – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

EU General Data Protection Regulation

Human Rights Act 1998 (legislation.gov.uk)

Mental Capacity Act 2005

Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice

Mental Health Act 1983

Mental Health Act Code of Practice

Information for Nearest Relatives – Mental Health Tribunal (T117) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Independent Review of the Mental Health Act – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Modernising the Mental Health Act – final report from the independent review – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Common Law Duty of Confidentiality and Consent

Section 2: The common law of confidentiality and consent – NHS Digital

Additional Resources

Access to health records (bma.org.uk)

Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information – ethical guidance – GMC (gmc-uk.org)

Suicide prevention (nice.org.uk) NICE Quality Standard

The Code (nmc.org.uk) see para 6, page 9

Beale, C., Lee-Davey, J., Lee, T., & Ruck Keene, A. (2023). Mental capacity in practice part 2: Capacity and the suicidal patient. BJPsych Advances, 1-10. doi:10.1192/bja.2022.82

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