Medical Records: Databases
Health
Written answers and statements, 10 December 2007
Jeremy Wright (Whip, Whips; Rugby & Kenilworth, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether it will be lawful for the secondary users database to be searched at the request of the police and for the police to be provided with the identity of individuals whose medical records contain specific information.
Ben Bradshaw (Minister of State (Health Services; Minister for the South West), Department of Health; Exeter, Labour)
Data from the secondary uses service will only be disclosed to the police where it is in the overriding public interest, for example to prevent, or support detection of, extremely serious crimes, where there is statutory authority, or where the courts have made an order requiring disclosure.