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The community of the excluded: mental health and confidentiality in prisons
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- Published on: 3 June 2015
- Published on: 3 June 2015Secrecy can confer unequal power, confidentiality should confer respectShow More
Respect for citizens' rights to confidentiality have come a long way over the past decade or so in the UK but not without resistance in some parts of the medical establishment. Along with and allied to confidentiality, respect for a person's right to know what is being said about them (access to files) has been something of a struggle and still is for those who are incarcerated in prisons or hospitals. 'Secrecy' rather...
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