Patient Confidentiality

[randomer]

I wonder if anybody could help out here please? I am in a difficult situation. Very briefly, hospital staff have spoken at length to a private carer about my elderly parent, but not me.
Is this even permitted?

Did parent give consent?

Yes, consent from parent?

I don't know,sadly

Is the elderly parent lucid enough to knowingly give consent? Ie: no Alzheimer's? Etc

Is it something the private carer needs to be aware of when providing care?

Does the carer look after your parent?

My mum has carers, and often has to go into hospital for brief stays. It's the carers who recognise when she needs to go in and arrange that (it needs an ambulance), and it's the carers who need to know when she's being discharged. So they're often the people the hospital call first. And of course they need to know what extra care she might need when she comes home, so the hospital will tell them.

If the career is a member of the patients clinical care team and has a legal basis to confidential patient information, then it would not be a breach in the common law duty of confidentially

*confidentiality

At least in England and Wales, I don’t know about the laws in Scotland and NI