title: Patient confidentiality and mental health: part 1.
abstract: Confidentiality has long been considered as particularly important in health-care practice in general and in mental health-care in particular. This is the first of two papers which explores the nature of the obligation of health-care confidentiality in law and it implications for those concerned with mental health care services. It explores how the obligation of confidentiality arises and whom it is owed to.
authors.affiliation: School of Law, University of Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: Jean V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: McHale
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom