Medical Records: Data Protection
(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the official period is for the retention of patient documents.
This question was answered on 12th September 2017
The official period for the retention of patient documents is provided in the ‘Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2016’ published by the Information Governance Alliance.