Confidentiality
Your privacy matters!
At the Halton Trauma Centre we know how important it is to respect your right to privacy. Our treatment team follows strict policies in order to protect this right by ensuring that your personal information is safeguarded within the members of our team. In order to make certain that you and your family understand your rights, our confidentiality policies and procedures will be thoroughly explained when you first begin at our center.
As a client, it is important to know that your information may only be shared with your written consent. However, in order to protect the best interests of you and your family, there are some exceptions to this. Such situations where your information may be shared include:
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Where there is a risk of serious harm to yourself.
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Where there is a risk of serious harm to others.
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Where serious criminal offences are disclosed against identified individuals.
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Where information is disclosed which would indicate that a particular child under the age of 16 has been harmed or neglected.
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Where a court orders your records.
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Where sexual abuse is disclosed by a regulated health professional, such as a doctor, psychologist or dentist.
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Where there is a disclosure that a particular person is in possession of child pornography.
