That seems like a seriously good idea: what would happen if everyone put the
link on their practice website, with the information that, naturally,
although unable to refuse the CQC inspectors access to patients' records,
the practice undertakes to inform the patients whose records have been
accessed?
Will the members of the CQC team be named?

Mary Hawking
Will I be seeing you at the PHCSG Confernce on 9-10th October?
http://phcsg.org/agm-2014/

-----Original Message-----
From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
Sent: 07 October 2014 15:42
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CQC inspectors accessing GP patient records:what about "Fair
Processing"

The solution as I've noted before is that every access to the patient
notes should be reported to the patient.

Of course, now that GPs don't control the location of records, or
access to them, or the development of the automation systems around
them, this becomes difficult or unfeasible for us to do individually.

People who properly have and use an official right to inspect a
medical record will have no difficulty or reticence in explaining this
to their subject.



On 7 October 2014 15:26, Roz Foad <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Indeed, and do they have to give them the chance to opt out?
>
> I would be decidedly miffed if I thought my GP was giving access to
someone
> who had no involvement in my care, without my consent.  Is this really
> legal, seems to completely ignore the DPA?
>
> Roz Foad MSc FBCS CITP
>
> www.foads.co.uk
>
>
>
> Immediate Past Chair BCS Primary Healthcare Specialist Group www.phcsg.org
>
> Past Vice Chair BCS Health (Members)
> http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.6044
>
> Past Director, UKCHIP
> www.ukchip.org Ensuring safe practice in health informatics
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mary Hawking
> Sent: 07 October 2014 14:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: CQC inspectors accessing GP patient records:what about "Fair
> Processing"
>
> 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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