PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Medical Records (31 October 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which person or body has overall ownership and copyright of Health Records in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.

Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)

Answer

Legal responsibility for health records lies with the healthcare body that has provided care or treatment to a patient. Patients do not have any legal rights of ownership to the medical records held by the National Health Service organisations but they do have certain rights of access to those records.


Answered by:
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative)
7 November 2016

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