[Who is allowed to attend a multidisciplinary team meeting?]

Healthcare providers regularly discuss the situation of a patient and his or her care needs with colleagues. This in an effort to compare experiences and provide in a coordinated way high quality care to patients. These multidisciplinary meetings are sometimes also attended by healthcare professionals that do not themselves have a treatment relation with the patient, such as medical students and junior doctors for learning purposes. This raises the question whether it is allowed for non-treating professionals to attend these meetings without the prior informed consent of the patient. We argue that the attendance on non-treating professionals is in accordance with the rules of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Dutch Act on Patients' Rights provided that they are bound by the duty of confidentiality.