Health Records
Health records in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of health records.
Resources
See Also
- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police Work
- Law Enforcement Agency
Further Reading
- health records in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- health records in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
English Legal System: Health Records
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Health Records : Records kept by the National Health Service about patients. Under the Access to Health Records Act 1990, from 1 November 1991 most patients were given the right to see their health records. The patient does not have to give a reason for wanting access and can authorize someone else, such as his solicitor, to obtain access on his behalf. It is a policy of the Department of Health that individuals are permitted to see what has been written about them and that health_care providers should make arrangements to allow patients to see, if they wish, records other than those covered by the 1990 Act. This Act has been amended by the Data Protection Act 1998 (See also data protection).
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