Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken in response to inaccuracies, omissions and loss of NHS medical records relating to historic sodium valproate prescribing.

Affected patients who feel there are inaccuracies or omissions in their medical record can ask for their records to be amended. NHS England’s guidance on amending patient and service user records is available at the following link:

https://transform.england.nhs.uk/information-governance/guidance/amending-patient-and-service-user-records/

Where patients are not satisfied with the response to their request, they can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office.