Question follow-through · 14468
General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance NHS England provides to GP practices on responding to covert recording of consultations by patients.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance NHS England provides to GP practices on responding to covert recording of consultations by patients.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2026
Answer published
NHS England has not produced guidance specifically for general practices on the covert recording of consultations. NHS England has published guidance on the use of mobile devices by patients in hospitals, which signposts to the British Medical Association...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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