Petition Who is the righful owner of a patients clinical information

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The petition requests a formal public discussion of the ownership and responsibility towards individual clinical information.

Currently there are stakeholders in the information, i.e NHS Trusts, the DoH and the Patient.

The questions that need to be asked are;

1. Are patients appropriately consulted about the sharing of their information?
2. Do they have EASY access to their information?
3. Can they EASILY see who is accessing their information?
4. Can they EASILY prevent access to their information?
5. Is it in the public interest to extend the scale of stakeholders bearing in mind the significant risks surrounding anonimisation of information?

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

8 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 8 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 6 December 2012
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