questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of (a) vetting procedures for companies that apply to use medical records and (b) safeguards to prevent medical data being used for purposes other than those for which access was granted.
answerText: National Health Service patient data from medical records is only shared when it will benefit health and care and where it is subject to technical and organisational controls to maintain privacy and protect data. Where a research project requests access t...
heading: Medical Records: Data Protection