Confidentiality of Service Users’ Information (England) Policy

Policy Statement

This care service works on the principle that it has a duty of confidentiality to its service users. The service regards this as being of the utmost importance and key to building trusting, caring relationships, where service users are safe in the knowledge that their confidences will be kept and where information about them will be protected safely.

It is the service’s policy that all the information we receive about or from service users is confidential and that only those people who need to know the information will have access to it. The service will always seek the written permission of its users prior to sharing personal information about them with anyone else.