No more walking on eggshells for Helen! Heading for an eggsplosive Easter weekend in The Archers - will Helen Archer be resurrected by the end of this thread?

[PseudoBadger]

Helen knows she's not cracking up - Knob is an eggomaniac.

Are we eggshausted with this storyline?

I think it was a deliberate ploy to make the country weekend away Pat's idea - firmly entrenching Pat on #teamRob

Oooh D^3 , Hellin's birthday is on 16th April!

Wolpertinger I'm guessing you're in health - does anybody bother with the Caldicott Principles these days or are they a bit of an irrelevance? I recall the main thing about them is only disclose info on a need to know basis, but essentially if you're DPA compliant will anybody be looking at Caldicott as well?

On a different note - I loathe and detest Toby and would happily set about him with cricket bat or a scotch egg.

I think George took the £20 from Clarrie's purse. No idea who took the Church money. I'm guessing not George because he would have bought the egg before the money went missing; and not Alf because he had gone before it went missing. So that leaves Rob and the Button girls as chief suspects.

He would need most of Peggy's £10k to afford the kind of seats Helen deserves at current London theatre prices. I had to pay £62 recently to see Kristen Scott Thomas in The Audience and it could have been a lot more. Helen & Rob would need a whole box to themselves given the state of her swollen ankles.

It's a bit risky letting Henry loose with his blood relatives after last week's revelations. He may let slip about how he needs to be obedient, not to mention that Grandma Ursula made up his bath time trauma.

I don't believe a midwife or HCP would leave a sensitive message ("your STD results are clear") or tell anyone other than the patient anything sensitive. They are usually quite ambiguous messages but even midwives can be lulled into thinking couples are really couples and not in EA relationships, and say something they shouldn't. I would be very annoyed though.

As for I'm not a monster. Oh, Yes He Is, Oh No He Isn't says Pat Oh Yes He Is

Grr Midwives do not leave messages with other people NOK or not. Badly done scriptwriters.

In other news, (as discussed up thread), why was Knob in the Church when Arsula had returned home (and he didn't need to show off)?

I'm starting an Alf is innocent campaign.

I loathe blue cheese. I always struggle with Borsetshire Blue being Helen's inspired creation.

I want the hen-house torcher to get caught, weanh....!! I thought there was an echo, though. A fire killed Grace (a Fairbrother) & indirectly led to Jill marrying Phil. A fire burnt the henhouse (Fairbrother property) & may indirectly lead to Rex & Pip getting together...?

I think recycling makes an interesting point about the phonecall. You'd think they would have written it so that we hear a voice saying "oh, it's X, the midwife - can I speak to Helen?" and then it cuts away. (The lack of reply made me think it was Kirsty phoning back and that's why she didn't speak).

The voicemail theory makes sense, or is there another way that Rob could have found out and was just deploying that information when he thought he could use it to put Helen in her place. (Unfortunately for him the opposite happened, and he had to deploy the "of course I'll let you choose, I'm not a monster" charm approach).

He's going to miss the last performances of Billy Elliott too.

I remember 19 years ago coming home from work for DH to tell me the results of my gestational diabetes test - a midwife had called our landline (no mobile) and told him.

And the receptionists at our local surgery are happy to discuss details of patients' conditions, including names, in hearing of visitors to the surgery.
I am quite prepared to believe that the MW spoke to Rob in the terms he recounted to Helen.

The midwife, if she did tell Knob, did the wrong thing . Our GP's surgery might leave a message- but it would just be along the lines of please return our call- no other details (a bit worrying if you have no idea why).

The thread has taken rather an uneasy turn & I feel, too, that it is because of Elendon's hectoring. I agree with Bore

Yes they shouldn't but they do

Come on guys. It was Helen's phone. I would have said 'Kirstie' or 'Midwife' . Or has Helen blocked all contacts so Rob doesn't find out about who is calling. He made the whole midwife thing up.

There are many tales of foster carers and adoptive parents pre-final adoption order having their child's birth surname called over the announcement system (or fed into the display board) at GP surgeries when the child has a very distinctive surname and people who know birth family and know that they are trying to find the child's whereabouts, live locally to foster/adoptive family.

Longwinded way of saying I'm not at ALL surprised that someone let confidentiality slip.

How did I hector Told?

Apologies if anyone thinks I've been argumentative or goady this evening. It must be the effect of working from home during school holidays combined with Rob's tone of voice.

I think recycling has it. Rob has listened to Helen's message on her voicemail.

I didn't read any of your posts as argumentative or goady Stick

There are - ups with confidentiality all the time. I once received (through work) some medical documents about a child who was living in a refuge... with the actual street address of the refuge on it. These docs were also sent to school, which in theory, could then have been accessed by the child's abusive father.

Yes, also apologies if my posts have changed tone of thread. I've only just delurked and the threads gone horrible

And thus it was forever known as the threadus horribilis....

Phew. I like it round here & don't want to be thrown out in disgrace after many happy threads. I've had fun with Plimsoll & her training sessions tonight too.

Oh no plimsolls you've nothing to apologise for

AnnieNoMouse and others - I work in that field and yes Caldicott principles are at the core of how patients' information is handled. Everyone has to do information governance training on a regular basis BUT people are people and they do slip up. MW should not have spoken to Knob about hellin's birth choices.

...Sorry Pseudo. Should we link the mid-April thread titles in with the Queen 's 90th birthday in true Linda style?