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Partnership and Privacy – Tension or Settlement? The Case of Adult Mental Health Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Perri 6 ,
Christine Bellamy ,
Charles Raab  and
Adam Warren
Perri 6
Affiliation:
Nottingham Trent University E-mail Perri.6@ntu.ac.uk
Christine Bellamy
Affiliation:
Nottingham Trent University
Charles Raab
Affiliation:
School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh
Adam Warren
Affiliation:
Department of Information Science, Loughborough University
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Abstract

Mental health is a good example of a field where imperatives for partnership or collaborative working can be in tension with those for client confidentiality. Both imperatives have been reinforced by additional regulation in recent years, in response to major inquiries. Professionals face the dilemma that either sharing clients' or patients' information or not sharing it could lead to outcomes for which they might be blamed; any rule adopted risks one or other type of error. This article examines two cases from a larger interview-based study of how local organisations are trying practically to reconcile these competing pressures.

Type
Themed Section on Partnerships, Governance and Citizenship
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 237 - 248
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2006

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