Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she has taken to ensure that patients receiving psychotherapy are informed before their therapy notes are made available to other organisations through shared care records.

The Department does not hold data on the number of patients who received psychological therapy from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust each year for the last three years or how many many of these patients had their records shared on the London Care Record.

Records relating to direct care are shared on a basis of implied consent by the OneLondon digital systems, including the London Care Record. Currently there are different ways to object to or opt-out of data being shared through OneLondon. Information on how patients may do this is published at the following link:

https://onelondon.online/your-information/