Quote: jockabull "Data Protection act covers, well data protection, not that you've seen/talked to someone and told people about it. Unless he's going to post his medical records I'll think he'll be just fine.'"
If I am visiting at X Hospital and see player A. Bloggs there, then I am free to talk about it.
If I
work at X Hospital then, very clearly, I am absolutely not at liberty to reveal in public that any named person was being treated at my hospital, and if caught doing so would risk the sack for breach of patient confidentiality.