questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to allow (a) next of kin and (b) executors of deceased armed forces personnel to gain access to the (i) medical records and (ii) diagnostic tests of those personnel that were completed before the Access to Health Records Act 1990 came into force.
answerText: There are no plans to change Ministry of Defence policy which is consistent with wider UK practice across the medical profession. There is an ethical obligation to respect a patient’s confidentiality after death and access to deceased patients’ health rec...
heading: Armed Forces: Medical Records