Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the proposed Single Patient Record will have audit trails that are directly accessible to patients as a matter of course.

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.