At the Primary Care Educators seminar last week, one of the Training Programme Directors reported an incident where a video camera and tape of consultations was stolen from a practice. This was reported to the practices local Primary Care Trust and a full Significant Untoward Incident Report was completed. This was a major loss of significant material of a confidential nature and exposed the practice, trainer and trainee to allegations of non compliance with Data Protection regulations and possible reporting to the GMC for loss of significant data.
This is really, really serious ...
So, it got me thinking. What should we be doing to protect against this sort of thing. At the Pontefract Trainers Workshop this week we discussed this incident and came up with a list of suggestions:
- Keep your consulting room door locked when you leave the room if the video is set up
- Lock the camera and tapes securely away when not in use
- Wipe all tapes at the end of each attachment
- Trainers should add a bit to trainees contracts and induction pack about keeping camera and tapes secure
Helpfull our take home message was that we should inform trainees that if anything is stolen it is YOUR FAULT....
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