Medical Records: Databases

(asked on 10th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage the sharing of patient-related information by NHS organisations.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 17th October 2014

The Government approached Dame Fiona Caldicott to lead an independent review to see how best to balance the need to keep patient information secure with the need to share it among health and care professionals for legitimate reasons and to monitor progress against her recommendations. The review’s report, “Information: to share or not to share” and the Government’s response document are available on line.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-information-governance-review

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/caldicott-information-governance-review-department-of-health-response

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