Question follow-through · 18805

Health Services and Pharmacy: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England's guidance entitled Preventing unlawful access to patient records, published on the 8th July applies to a) data held in General Practice, b) data accessed from pharmacies partic

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
14 Jul 2026
Target answer date
16 Jul 2026
Answer
18 Aug 2026 · 35 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 14 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England's guidance entitled Preventing unlawful access to patient records, published on the 8th July applies to a) data held in General Practice, b) data accessed from pharmacies partic

  2. 16 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 18 Aug 2026

    Answer published

    The Stopping unlawful access to records guidance for health and care professionals applies to any patient data, and to anyone working in the National Health Service, or under contract to the NHS, with the potential to access patient records. This would in...

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