Looking at the CQC website on GP inspections
http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/gp-and-out-hours-mythbusters-nigel-sparrow#acc
essing-medical-records
It seems that, under the HSCA 2008, CQC has a right to access patient
records without needing any consent, and the number of records accessed will
vary - but it sounds as though some inspection is a routine part of an
inspection.
(Has anyone had an inspection, and were your patients' records accessed?)
In the case of Care.data, we have been told that GPs, as Data Controllers,
have to inform all their patients about the program as part of "fair
processing".
Do GPs have a similar duty to inform their patients about the CQC?
Mary Hawking
Will I be seeing you at the PHCSG Confernce on 9-10th October?
http://phcsg.org/agm-2014/
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