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Confidentiality of sexual health patients’ information – what has history taught us and where do we stand?
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The rights of patients to access confidential care, without referral from, or sharing of, information with general practitioners or other health care professionals, is a founding principle of sexual health care in England. Indeed, the progressive Public Health (Venereal Diseases) Regulations 1916, described by Harrison in the first edition of the British Journal of Venereal Diseases, continues to influence the way that sexual health …
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