2023, issue 24

Records after retirement

Rupert Hoppenbrouwers
ByRupert Hoppenbrouwers
Published13 February 2023
Dento-legal issues can still raise their heads after you retire, with records being one area that can generate questions for some time after you down tools for good…

Patient records should only be accessed on a need-to-know basis, and not out of general interest or on a whim.

Dental-legal aspects of remote consultantions

This page was correct at publication on 13/02/2023. Any guidance is intended as general guidance for members only. If you are a member and need specific advice relating to your own circumstances, please contact one of our advisers.

Rupert Hoppenbrouwers
Senior dento-legal adviser

Rupert Hoppenbrouwers (BDS LDSRCS) was head of the DDU until his retirement at the end of 2015. He is a former general dental practitioner and was director of the School of Dental Hygiene at University College Hospital, London, from 1980 to 1986. He has lectured and written widely on risk management and dento-legal matters, has previously chaired the UK Dental Law and Ethics Forum, and has a particular interest in complex ethical and legal issues affecting dental members

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