Confidentiality Agreement

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Dear Mr Lynch,
 
Thank you for your correspondence of 13 January about confidentiality
agreements.
 
NHS trusts are independent employers.  As such, their policies on
recruitment and dismissal are expected to meet all legal employment
requirements and follow good employment practice.  Information on
confidentiality agreements made with their former members of staff would
not routinely be reported to the Department of Health.
 
You requested your correspondence be treated under the Freedom of
Information Act.  However, as your correspondence asked for general
information, rather than requesting recorded information or documentation,
I should advise you that on this occasion we have not considered your
correspondence under the provisions of the Act.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Malcolm Jones
Customer Service Centre
Department of Health
 
 

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