Compliance – is there ‘grey' in privacy and confidentiality

Overview

Allied health clinics have ethical and legal obligations to protect the privacy of people requiring and receiving care. Clients have a right to expect that practitioners and their staff will hold information about them in confidence, unless information is required to be released by law or public interest considerations. But when a client reports a risk of harm to self or others, when does your duty to warn (keep others safe) supersede your need to obtain consent. In this session we will explore:

your duty of confidentiality;
your duty to warn;
best practice when a client has reported abuse, either taken life threatening action, has made explicit threats of self-harm, or is at risk of self-harm but has made no explicit threat; and
practical tips on how to best support your staff following a client in crisis.

Presenters

Tanya Straguszi, is a Principal Lawyer of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and has over 15 years’ experience practicing exclusively in personal injury law. She has particular expertise with serious injury claims having been involved in the decision of Smith v National Injury Insurance Agency [2020] QSC 289, which created new case law in Queensland regarding eligibility criteria for brachial plexus injury sufferers to be accepted into the National Injury Insurance Scheme. Tanya oversees several of the firm’s offices located in regional Queensland and the Northern Territory. Tanya was the winner of the Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards for Regional Lawyer of the Year in 2018, winner of the Women Lawyers Association Queensland Regional Lawyer of the Year in 2019 and was recognised in the Doyles Guide as a leading Accident Compensation Lawyer in Queensland in 2019.

Host

Business National Group

Date of Live Event

02/08/2023

CPD Hours

1.0 Hour

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