Question follow-through · 18355
Patients: Privacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue updated guidance to NHS trusts on protecting patient confidentiality in shared hospital wards, including the use of patient identifiers, bedside information displays and t
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2026 · 52 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue updated guidance to NHS trusts on protecting patient confidentiality in shared hospital wards, including the use of patient identifiers, bedside information displays and t
15 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2026
Answer published
National Health Service organisations are responsible for ensuring that they meet their legal and professional obligations in relation to patient confidentiality and the privacy of patients receiving care. This includes compliance with data protection leg...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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