§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to allow a patient to consent to, or to be aware of, those uses and disclosures of personal information that are not obvious at the time the patient provides the information; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DorrellPatients give consent (either expressly or implicitly) to the use of personal information for the purpose of their care and treatment and for NHS management purposes. The Department is currently consulting about a draft EC directive on data protection which includes a proposal that individuals should be given specific advice about the purposes for which it is proposed to record information about them.