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General Practitioners: Medical Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has issued to GP practices in England on giving patients access to copies of their records.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
3 Mar 2025
Answer
7 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has issued to GP practices in England on giving patients access to copies of their records.

  2. 3 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 7 Mar 2025

    Answer published

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  4. 7 Mar 2025

    Answer corrected

    Practices are contractually obliged to provide full prospective record access to all patients, for those aged 16 years old and above, unless exceptions apply or if the patient has informed the practice that they do not, or no longer, wish to have access.S...

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