Medical Records: Data Protection

(asked on 1st November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to support NHS GP surgeries with the extra workload associated with the forthcoming rollout of expanded patient access to medical records.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 8th November 2022

Since 2019, it has been a contractual requirement for general practitioner (GP) practices to offer all patients access to their record. Following recommendations published by the Royal College of General Practitioners, NHS England provided GP practices with a four-month notice period prior to the planned deployment of automatic online access to prospective records for patients registered with practices using TPP and EMIS information technology systems.

NHS England has hosted webinars for practice staff to prepare for this change, published guidance and a checklist detailing policies and processes which require updating.

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