Patients' rights of access to their health records

Medical Law International

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 189-213

  Davies, Jackie ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAW; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT RIGHT; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0029847053     PISSN: 09685332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096853329600200301     Document Type: Review

References (3)

1. Patients now have qualified rights of access to their computer-held records by virtue of the Data Protection (Subject Access Modification) (Health) Order 1987 and to their manually-held records under the Access to Health Records Act 1990.
2. Patient's Charter 1991, HMSO.
3. As in the UK, patients in Australia have a statutory qualified right of access to their health records. Under the Australian Freedom of Information Act 1982 and the Freedom of Information Act 1989, qualified rights of access are restricted to health records held by public authorities. It should be noted that the case of Breen v Williams discussed in this article concerned medical records held by a private medical practitioner, thus falling outside the scope of the Acts.