PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Medical Records (31 October 2016)
Question Asked
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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