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.
Patients have a right to know what is happening to their information.
Posters and leaflets advising patients of uses of their information should be displayed in public areas. Deceased patients' information is also treated as confidential. Disclosure of deceased patients' information must be a matter for individual decision by the clinician. Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specific and lawful purposes. Personal data shall be accurate and where necessary kept up to date.