PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Medical Records (10 October 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that primary care providers are compensated by third party representatives for providing copies of patients' medical records where that information is gathered for purposes other than insurance underwriting.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

The implications of the General Data Protection Regulation on general practitioner practices have been raised with NHS England as part of the wider General Medical Services contract review discussions. It would not be appropriate to comment while those discussions are ongoing.

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
15 October 2018