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Confidentiality issues in child protection
Academic GPST1 and LLM student
E-mail:bhayhoe@gmail.com
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Sir,
I was interested to read Dr Anna Wilson's helpful article on safeguarding children in your first issue of this journal. Given the vital role of health professionals in general, and GPs in particular, in recognition and referral of child abuse and neglect and the fact that GPs are acknowledged (British Medical Association 2004) to be uncomfortable in this role, a few points merit further expansion. Of particular importance is the issue of