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date	18/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Records: Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that patient data held by the National Health Service are not sold improperly.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>National Health Service organisations are individually accountable for their management of patient information and must comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and common law confidentiality requirements. The sale of patient identifiable data, without patient consent, would be an unlawful act. Where data is brought together in large databases for purposes other than care - for example, commissioning and medical research – the Government intends to ensure that data will be handled in secure environments, for a limited range of approved purposes and under strict controls. The Government will shortly be consulting on the controls and safeguards that should be established to reassure patients and the wider public.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made changes through the Care Act to extend the role of the independent Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG), which advises the Secretary of State and the Health Research Authority on non-direct care uses of confidential health data. The CAG can advise the Health and Social Care Information Centre and ensure, as outlined in the Care Act that there is a clear legal basis to support the disclosure of patient data and that data are only used for care related purposes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 02/07/2014 12:54:11 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

57540

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Records: Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the present arrangements for the protection of patients' private medical information by general practitioners.
tabling member printed	Lord Trefgarne
uin	HL13
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text General practitioner (GP) practices are individually responsible for ensuring that they comply with legal and ethical requirements and central guidance in relation to data protection and patient confidentiality. A majority of GP practices in England provide assurance that they do so by completing annual assessments of their compliance against information governance requirements through the National Health Service Information Governance Toolkit, and the results of these assessments are publicly available. answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 11/06/2014 11:45:24 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne

57541

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Records: Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the rules relating to the release of patients' private medical information to insurance companies by general practitioners.
tabling member printed	Lord Trefgarne
uin	HL14
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>General practitioners (GPs) must ensure that patients have provided explicit consent before disclosing information to insurance companies. Additionally, under the provisions of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988, patients have the right to view medical reports prepared for insurance companies and, where a patient has exercised this right, a GP cannot disclose the report to the insurance company until the patient has had the opportunity to review it or if the patient withdraws their consent.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 11/06/2014 11:45:03 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne