Programme

09.35

Registration and coffee

09.55

Introduction and welcome
Dr John Ballard, editor, Occupational Health [at Work]

10.05

What is the GDPR?
Nick Hanning, Dutton Gregory LLP

  • The data protection principles
  • Who is the data subject, controller and processor?
  • The data protection officer
  • Protecting employee, patient and customer data
  • Special category data
  • Claims by individuals
10.50

Confidentiality and consent
Professor Diana Kloss, barrister

  • Policies and procedures
  • What does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mean for occupational health data?
  • Status of the ethical duties of OH professionals
  • Implications for existing legislation, ethics and codes of practice
  • Record keeping
  • Privacy notices
  • Are the rules the same for nurses and doctors?
  • Social media and online forums
11.40

Coffee

12.00

Subject-access requests
Professor Diana Kloss, barrister

  • Right of access
  • Right to be forgotten
  • Disclosing without consent from third-party clinicians
  • Can we charge patients/workers for accessing
    their data?
12.40

What happens if there is a data
breach?
Nick Hanning, Dutton Gregory LLP

  • Financial penalties
  • Incident identification, who to notify, and
    response plans
13.00

Lunch

14.00

Compliance in practice
Dr Steve Boorman, Empactis

  • How is OH data protection different from other
    OH data processing?
  • Gaining consent in practice for:
     a referral
     the OH report
     a report from a GP
  • Record keeping – paper and electronic
  • Encryption, IT solutions, email issues and artificial intelligence
  • Different issues for large and small organisations
  • Staff training
  • Testing and reviewing procedures
  • Plain-language subject-access requests
  • Communicating with other healthcare professionals
  • Using OH data for research
  • Sources of reliable guidance
15.10

Tea

15.25

Data protection Q&A with our speakers

  • Your chance to ask questions of our expert speakers
16.30

Close

Benefits of attending

You will gain:

  • An in-depth comprehension of the GDPR and how this affects data protection in OH
  • A detailed understanding of how to implement the provisions of the GDPR in all types of OH practice. From the issues of consent to privacy notices, record keeping to encryption, we examine the practical issues that you need to consider to ensure compliance.
  • This training is designed for:
    • Occupational health nurses • Occupational physicians
    • Allied professionals working in OH

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