The Access to Medical Records Act 1990 covers access to deceased medical records.
Nic Drew
DPO, Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust
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From: Couldrey, Paul (Finance, IT - Solihull MBC)
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Sent: 19 March 2002 09:10
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Subject: Deceased People
And before I get the standard response I know that the Act only relates to
living identifiable persons.
However, some assistance would be helpful, Social Services have received a
request from the next of kin of a recently deceased client, the relative
wants access to the deceased files especially with regard to particular
handling of a care spell (we smell a law suit here).
I have advised Social services this can not be dealt with under the DPA, and
they want to know if there is any other legislation dealing with disclosure
of this data, has anyone dealt with an issue like this before?
Paul Couldrey
Paul Couldrey
Corporate Information Security Manager
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
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