Child protection: Medical responsibilities

✍ Scribed by Peter Reder

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 202 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0952-9136
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(199603)5:1<64::aid-car244>3.0.co;2-e

✦ Synopsis

The core principle is that the needs of the child must always be regarded as offirst impor tame' Child Protection: Medical Responsibilities Child Protection : Medical Responsibilities (Department of Health, British Medical Association and Conference of Medical Royal Colleges, 1994) is a revision of Working Together (Department of Health and Social Security and Welsh Office, 1988). and an addendum to Working Together under the Children A c t I989 (Home Office, Department of Health, Department of Education and Science and Welsh Office, 1991). It primarily concerns medical confidentiality dilemmas when a doctor becomes aware of abuse (or risk of abuse) to a child. The document attempts to bring together previous guidance to multi-agency child protection networks and views from the General Medical Council and other bodies on medical confidentiality. The doctors most likely to