Employee health privacy in a COVID-19 world

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Employee health privacy in a COVID-19 world

Charles Mabbett

Charles Mabbett

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A realistic approach is needed over the balance between practice staff members’ right to privacy and ensuring fellow frontline staff’s health and safety in a COVID-19 outbreak

PRIVACY MATTERS

Communications advisor Charles Mabbett from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner gives some common-sense advice on employees’ health privacy during a COVID-19 outbreak

Even though the disease hasn’t yet got going in New Zealand, the impact of the coronavirus is being keenly felt here and discussed widely. It is m