Confidentiality and information sharing

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Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• keep confidential information safe and share it only when you are allowed to
• ask for advice when you are not sure

2. Working

You can:

• check that a request to share information meets policy
• keep records of what was shared, with whom, and why
• draft simple information sharing agreements

3. Practitioner

You can:

• advise on complex confidentiality questions, such as sharing without consent in the public interest
• review information sharing agreements with partner organisations
• apply consent and patient objection rules to data flows

4. Expert

You can:

• act as the senior adviser on confidentiality for the organisation
• resolve the most difficult disclosure decisions
• set the framework for sharing information with partners

Closest ESCO skills

• maintain healthcare user data confidentiality (close match)
• information confidentiality (close match)
• document sharing procedures (broad match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

Role levels that expect this skill