Medical Records

(asked on 16th December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will limit the costs that hospitals can charge for providing medical records to third parties or relatives of deceased persons.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 6th January 2016

The Access to Health Records Act 1990 provides certain individuals with a right to apply for access to a deceased person’s health record. Record holders are entitled to recover their costs in relation to providing copies of records, and while there is no limit on this charge it should not result in a profit for the record holder. We have no plans to review these arrangements.

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