HL Deb 30 October 2003 vol 654 c62WA
The Earl of Northesk

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether individual patients have any legal rights of ownership to the medical records held about them by the National Health Service. [HL5004]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Warner)

Patients do not have any legal rights of ownership to the medical records held by the National Health Service but they do have certain rights of access to those records.