HC Deb 05 November 2003 vol 412 cc697-8W
Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 14 October 2003,Official Report, column 58W, to the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Evan Harris), on walk-in centres, what protocol covers whether clinical information should be shared with a patient's general practitioner. [133402]

Mr. Hutton

National health service walk-in centres are expected to work with their local Caldicott Guardian and are bound by the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Access to Health Records Act 1990.