Jeremy Olds reports:
A nurse who followed the request of a mentally-unstable early childhood teacher and accessed her medical record has been exonerated after the woman complained about an invasion of privacy.
The nurse, who has name suppression, was found by the Human Rights Review Tribunal not to have breached the Health Information Privacy Code in a case that dates back seven years.
The teacher claimed the nurse had accessed, printed and shared her medical record with her ex-partner, who used it in a 2007 child custody hearing to gain custody of their two children.
But, in its decision, the tribunal says the nurse did not breach the code because she was following the teacher’s request and gave it to the partner believing, honestly and reasonably, he was authorised to receive it.
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