Government rules out exempting practices from GDPR subject access requests

Practices will not be given the right to charge for patient information requests as it would‘weaken the rights of patients’, culture, media and sport minister Margot James has said.  Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force in May, practices can no longer charge a nominal fee for digging out patient information.  GPs say that since the data has had to be provided for free, they have seen a large rise in time-consuming requests which is adding to costs and GP workloads Hide related content:  Show related contentread more
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