Guidance

Confidentiality: NHS Code of Practice - supplementary guidance: public interest disclosures

This document expands upon the principles set out with the Department of Health’s key guidance Confidentiality: NHS Code of Practice.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 22 November 2010

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This document is aimed at aiding staff in making difficult decisions about when disclosures of confidential information may be justified in the public interest.

• Confidentiality: NHS Code of Practice

Published 22 November 2010