The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-04-25, Page 10tsr 10 --The WinghrW Advance -Times, April 25. 1878
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Confldenflafity
of
medical re
is tfor OHA seminar here�c
ti career of writing medical -legal
contained in health records and can be released with a pa enis
this led to the commission and to consent or even without consent reports for insurance companies,
under a court order or search would walk into a hospital and
a tightening up of the Mental warrant. obtain a patient's consent for a
Health Act, he said. The majority of requests for cursory examination and would
He commented that few people information come from police, then ask the nurse for the
have any real idea of the sorts of lawyers and insurance com- patient's records.
information their medical patties, he and Ms. Moran said, Another pretext being used by
records might contain and en- noting that police must have a private investigators is to phone
couraged hospital workers to search warrant or subpoena a hospital pretending to be a
look out for patients' interests in while lawyers or insurance doctor at anoth ^ tai who
releasing information, par- companies must have either the needs inform- patient
ticularly if there is any patient's consent or a court or- admitted for •f._ y treat -
psychiatric component to the der. meat. Such a ruse can be un -
records covered by simply calling back
"If you took a survey on what Ms. Moran also recommended the hospital from which the caller
the average citizen knows about any consent forms should contain says he is phoning.
medical records you'd be sur- the patient's original signature
The Krevprised what they don't know and should be not more than six which was a established Commissions
about what's in medical rec- months old.
ords," he remarked. Requests for access to records December of 1977, is charged
may also come from persons with investigating the con -
He added medical records involved in research or com- fidentiality of patient records in
workers should know what their pilation of statistical data, but public hospitals, looking into
institution's policy is regarding these should be honored only if abuses of information contained
release of information and said if properly authorized, Mr. Walsh in the records and recom-
the board doesn't have a policy said. mending any changes in
they should "rely on your own legislation needed to protect
experience and the best advice He cited several examples of confidentiality.
you can get". ways in which unauthorized
He noted that while the record persons have gained access to
bl• h ital doesn't medical records In one case a
How medical records should be
handled and to whom and under
what circumstances information
may be released was the topic for
a seminal during an Ontario
Hospital Association (OHA)
education day held here last
week.
About 65 medical records
workers and administrators from
hospitals within ORA Region 2,
which takes in 24 hospitals in the
Wingham, Goderich, Woodstock,
St. Marys, Tillsonburg and
Kitchener areas, listened to Rod
Walsh, a lawyer with the OHA,
and Judy Moran from the
association's health records
section speak on the con-
fidentiality of health records.
Mr. Walsh noted this subject is
a hot topic at the moment and is
under study by a commission
headed by Mr. Justice Horace
Krever of the Ontario Supreme
Court following allegations of
misuse of medical records.
It was alleged through the
Toronto press that police officers
had intimidated hospital per-
sonnel into releasing information.
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A FUND RAISING dinner for the Bob McKinley Progressive Conservative teaeraf
election campaign was held in Brussels last Wednesday night. Guest speaker Geoff Scott,
a former television broadcaster and now MP for Hamiltgp-Wentworth, is shown with Mr.
McKinley and the PC riding association president, Margaret Bennett.
to a pu tc os
belong to the patient, information Toronto doctor, who made a Four
hundred PC supporters orters
pp
attend fund raising n event
It
OPEN FIRE—Members of the Wingham Fire Department were called out at noon last
Friday to douse a fire along the CN railway tracks behind Maitland Estates. A CN worker
had gathered some old ties and planks and was burning them — a common disposal
practice for many years. However Fire Chief Dave Crothers announced an intention to
crack down on all open burnini4 in town, which is forbidden under the National Fire Code.
Chris Sakasov and Dave Gosling together with some of their friends stopped by on their
way home for lunch to watch the excitement.
TODAYS CHILD
+� BY HELEN ALLEN
Tommy is a strong, slender boy with brown wavy hair
and dark eyes. Anglo-Saxon in descent, he is in excel'ent
health.
Tommy 10, is an intelligent lad interested in almost
everything. He Is not now working up to his potential
because of unsettled early years and is in an ungraded
class of only five students, working at the Grades 3 and 4
level.
Keen on most sports, Tommy likes to be active. He
plays soccer, baseball and floor hockey. He belongs to the
Y and is taking swimming lessons. He loves camping. He
likes art and is good in crafts.
Tommy is living in a small Institution for children with
emotional problems. The staff is ready to help him and a
new family understand one another. Tommy will be a fine
son forpparents who can be patient while he comes to
believe cis really their son.
To Inquire about adoptingg Tommyy, please write to
Today's Child, Ministry of Corrtmunity and Social Ser-
vice, Box 8f38 Station K Torohto, Ontario M4P 2H2. In
your letter tell something of your present family and your
way of life.
For general adoption Information, contact your local
Children's Aid Society.
About 400 enthusiastic Pro- Trudeau government has Conservative leader would make
gressive Conservatives gathered operated. a better prime minister than the
in Brussels April 18 to raise funds All major political parties one the country has had for the
and support for the campaign of supported in principle the move past 11 years.
Huron -Bruce MP Bob McKinley.
to the metric system on a trial
Guest speaker at the fund
basis, but the Liberals pushed
raising rally was Geoff Scott,
ahead with the plans, Mr. Scott
Hamilton -Wentworth member of
claimed.
parliament.
Though no estimates have ever
Mr. McKinley, who has held his
been made public on the cost of
seat in parliament since 1965,
metrification, the Liberal
said spending has gotten out of
government has forged ahead
control in Ottawa. He charged
with the program, making the
that Prime Minister Pierre
metric system mandatory, while
Trudeau eliminated a process in
Canada's largest trading part -
which any member of parliament
ner, the U.S., continues to use the
could question government
metric system on a voluntary
spending estimates. Mr. Trudeau
basis.
replaced that practice with a
The metric units adopted by
system in which committees
the Canadian government aren't
hammer out differences of
identical to those used in the U.S.
opinion on government spending
and Europe, he said.
and closure is used if discussion
Mr. Scott said he decided to
is not completed, on time.
enter politics and leave' jour -
nalism because of what he saw on
A government led by PC leader
the political scene.
Joe Clark would give members of
parliament a chance to see how
"I became heartsick at what
money is being spent, Mr.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was doing
McKinley said.
to our country," he lamented.
The present system has
One of the ironies of the present
allowed federal government
political campaign presented by
spending to increase to $52 billion
the Liberals is that Mr. Trudeau
a year from the $12 billion spent
is claiming he is the only one who
the year Mr. Trudeau took office
can keep Canada unified, while
in 1968.
the same prime minister was in
The most recent byelections
power in 1968 and should have
showed a definite swing in voter
been able to prevent the current
popularity in favor of the
separatism crisis if what he now
Progressive Conservatives and
claims is true, Mr. Scott
even at the local level, the tur-
suggested.
nout at PC fund raising dinners
The guest speaker said he
held at recent elections shows a
makes as much use as possible in
shift in the direction of the Torys,
his riding campaign of the
Mr. McKinley said.
leadership of Joe Clark and told
the crowd at Brussels that people
In the 1972 election campaign
wondering about the kind of
there were about 250 supporters
prime minister Mr. Clark would
of the party at a local fund
be if his party wins the election
raising dinner, while attendance
should know that the Progressive
had grown to 400 at last week's
fund raising meeting.
s
Support for the Progressive
Conservatives is aided by the
desire by many voters to get rid
of the Trudeau government.
Mr. Scott, a former television
oil
reporter, told the crowd the
switch to the metric system was
NOTICE
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
commences in the Town of Wingham on
SUNDAY, APRIL 29
at 2:00 a.m.
William Renwick, Clerk
Town of Wingham
"What this country needs
...is effective leadership."
- Moira Couper, Ed Broadbent NDP
Huron -
COUPER NDP Bruce
Bayfield 565-2522 Exeter 229-6223 Seaforth 527-1860
Clinton 482-3208 Goderich 524-2756 Wingham 357-1594
(Authorized by official agent of Moria Couper, N.D.P., Bayfield)
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a good example of the way the I I ctricity carelessly taking risks
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Some prop a use e e
that can take lives. But the real shocker is that the
mistakes they make are so easy to avoid.
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