Everyone working within Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust must be aware of his or her responsibilities when using and accessing confidential information. 

All NHS bodies and those carrying out functions on behalf of the NHS have a common law duty of confidentiality to patients and a duty to maintain professional ethical standards of confidentiality.

Any personal information given or received in confidence for one purpose may not be used for a different purpose or passed to anyone else for a different purpose or passed to anyone else without the consent of the provider of the information.