Accessing and sharing health records and patient confidentiality

Accessing and sharing health records and patient confidentiality
House of Commons Briefing Note, 7 September 2015

• A summary of current arrangements for accessing patient records and sharing confidential patient information.

Contents:

• Accessing and sharing patient health records 
• Charges to access records 
• Limiting access to health records 
• Providing information to relatives and carers 
• Access to deceased patients’ health records 
• Care.data 
• Accessing records online 
• Summary Care Records 
• Sharing confidential patient information 
• Confidentiality and sharing health information 
• The Caldicott Review – April 2013 
• Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) guidance on confidentiality 
• Legal and statutory disclosures of information 
• Public interest disclosures of patient information 
• Deceased patients 
• Assessment of capacity to give or withhold consen