Medical Records: Internet
(asked on 14th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects patients to be able to access their own full medical records online.
This question was answered on 22nd March 2017
From 1 April 2016, the NHS Mandate required all general practitioner (GP) practices to offer patients online access to their medical record which includes items such as allergies, adverse reactions, medications, test results, problems and diagnoses and immunisations. Approximately 95% of GPs are able to offer this service to patients subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure compliance with information governance legislation.