§ Baroness Blatchasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the human rights of a National Health Service specialist who wishes to keep secret the fact that he is carrying the AIDS virus override the human right of his patients to know such information. [HL1441]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath)Following recent advice from the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS and the United Kingdom Advisory Panel for Health Care Workers Infected with Blood-borne Viruses, it is Department of Health policy to notify those patients who have been assessed as being at risk from healthcare workers found to be infected with the human-immunodeficiency virus.