Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that patients can access audit logs of who has accessed their health records across (a) GP Connect, (b) the Summary Care Record and (c) other existing systems before the implementation of the proposed Single Patient Record.

Patients can make a request to the relevant organisation, such as their general practice or hospital, to see who has accessed their information in existing systems.

Audit logs will be a key safeguard for the Single Patient Record, helping to show who has accessed patient information and whether that access was appropriate. The detailed audit log arrangements are being developed as part of the technical design work and have not yet been finalised.