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Addenbrooke’s Trust places great emphasis on the need for the strictest confidentiality in respect of personal health data. This applies to manual and computer records and conversations about patients' treatments. Everyone working for the National Health Service (NHS) is under a legal duty to keep patients' information, held in whatever form, confidential.
Patient information, as well as obvious material such as medical records, includes ‘non-health’ information (eg a patient’s name, address, date of birth, details of his or her financial or domestic circumstances) provided by the patient, and added to by NHS staff, a relative or other person.
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