Lewis v Secretary of State for Health

[2008] LS Law Med 559

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice FOSKETT

Confidential patient information — Whether a doctor's duty of confidentiality survived a patient's death — Court's jurisdiction to authorise disclosure of confidential patient information in the public interest — National Health Service Act 2006, section 251 — Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 — Whether post mortem removal of tissues for analysis amounted to patient care and treatment