Stop non-clinical social care staff accessing medical records
Stop non-clinical social care staff accessing medical records
Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has announced on 29/06/2022 that:
‘By March 2025, all clinical teams in an ICS will have appropriate access to a complete view of a person’s health and social care record that they can contribute to.
‘Non-clinical staff in social care settings will also be able to access appropriate information and input data into digital records in real time.’
'non-clinical social care staff' includes social workers, community midwives, and health visitors and they will be able to access clients electronic records by 2025, to access appropriate information and input data.
We hereby call on the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to disallow non-clinical social care staff - including social workers, community midwives, and health visitors from having access to individual’s private medical records.
Patients have the legal right to exercise their Right to Choose and included within that right is the right to not share patient data unless the patient consents.
Social care staff are already known for and face constant claims of record falsifications, irregular entries, unethical entries and access to individuals records where those individuals have interactions with social care.
Only medical experts working directly with the patient should have access to the patients file. The data subject's right to allow and dissallow access to their data MUST remain paramount to uphold confidence and trust in those they rely upon. This is a basic right of democracy.
A patient’s medical file is just that, the patients. By allowing mandatory access to the patient’s files you take away patient trust and ownership of their health and their data. This move is far too intrusive and detrimental to patient health.
To undo a ‘professional’s’ inaccurate recorded entry becomes the patient’s responsibility and is almost impossible to have amended or removed. The Data Protection Act does not easily allow for the individual to challenge a ‘professionals’ misdiagnosis.
Trust within medical professionalism is critical to a patients physical wellbeing but more so for the patient’s mental health.