Other members of medical staff would also have access if they wanted, as they wouldn't be able to do their job if they couldn't access medical records. It might not be ethical to access a colleague's records but they could if they wanted.
Patients have no right to know medical information (including vaccination status) of care staff in NHS bispitals. Unless you can provide evidence to the contrary...
You are free to refuse treatment. You are not able to demand treatment on your terms it you have refused treatment.
Disclisure of privileged information is a civil tort and possibly a criminal offence.
And to be clear, I think it's unreasonable (and unnecessary) to demand tests or vaccinations for patients to access services, though clearly if you argue it from one side, it undermines any argument you (not you personally, to be clear) might try to make when the roles are reversed.
You appear to be suggesting that patients have or should have some sort of right, and should be able to demand if politely asking is met with a polite refusal to divulge.
Depends what the service is. The service I'm talking about above is respite care, whereby my dad goes into a home for a week or two to give my mum a break. She's theoretically entitled to four weeks a year. It's been a struggle for her not to have that along with the day centre closed and theoretically supposed to be shielding (she mostly hasn't been shielding, but that's for the parenting your parents thread
).
Or report to the Information Commissioner.
No they won't
Not necessarily. I would be surprised if people would not say, "that is personal information" to protect their unvaccinated colleagues.
It changes the odds massively. MiB is right. Within care right now, people are very vocal in making it clear they've been vaccinated. Care homes are making a point of making it clear that all their staff are vaccinated. Mojo pixy is right that the motivation for that might not be noble - most care homes are private businesses and it is good business to make this stuff public - but still, it is happening.
Publicly sharing with people you've have the vaccine is easy the most tedious aspect of all this. We don't give a shit.
But it will get the organisation warned not to don't to others. What have you got against right to privacy?
If it was somebody about to treat me in a clinical setting I’d very much give a shit.
Don't know who this 'we' is. I do give a shit. Family of vulnerable people in care are very likely to give a shit, I would think.
What bollox answer is that?
