He paused to allow this professional confidence to sink in.

How can we restore public and professional confidence in our public-health system?

So I will continue to cover it under the heading of a professional confidence.

Shouldn't have told you, I suppose, violation of professional confidence and all that.

I feel that it would be betraying a professional confidence.

I would betray professional confidence if I told you one word more!

If he had, it might have been something I wouldn't have felt able to tell you without breaking a professional confidence.

It was a little late to talk about professional confidence, thought Dalgliesh.

Peter's professional confidence could be expected o reach only so far.

This would enhance professional confidence in what schools are achieving and the methods used to do it.