Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s recent proposal for a single care record for all NHS care in England will allow each patient to see which organisations have accessed their record and when.

We are proposing a single or unified health record as a vision for the future, to develop in consultation with the public and healthcare professionals. Ensuring that patients’ confidential information remains protected and is seen only by those who need to see it will be a priority. Public engagement next month will help us understand what safeguards patients would want to see.