Do Your Medical Records Stay Confidential Forever?
22nd May, 2020Your privacy rights will die with you, but that does not mean that just anyone will be permitted access to your medical records after you are gone. The extent to which such records should remain under wraps post mortem was analysed in a High Court test case. A man believed that his brother had, some years prior to his death, arranged to have samples of his sperm frozen at a fertility clinic. As personal representative of his brother's estate, he asked the clinic to provide him with copies of all...