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Confirming here that UK law, far from requiring an HCP/IBCLC to 
inform a doctor,  would explicitly *forbid* a practitioner to inform 
another healthcare provider of any issue arising in a consultation 
without the clear consent of the person having the consultation.

If a letter or a report has to be done, the norm for the past 30 
years has been for HCPs write to other providers and give/send an 
identical copy to the patient/client, though I don't think this is a 
formal requirement.  I know this has not been the case forever, 
because it's only in the last 10 years or so that my elderly mother 
has felt comfortable about reading these reports/letters - she used 
to think it was some sort of snooping. Of course all her children 
rolled their eyes at her and put her right - and we're still working 
on her *asking* the doctor 'what exactly are these pills? What are 
they for? What can I expect them to do?'  as she seems to think it's 
none of her business.

Point is, that all this deference to doctors is from another age!

The only time it would be permitted for confidentiality to be broken 
would be in child/vulnerable adult safeguarding issues.

As a volunteer breastfeeding counsellor, my organisation requires me 
to work in the same way.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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http://www.heatherwelford.co.uk

http://heatherwelford.posterous.com

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