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Health secretary James Murray has said that he will become a data controller of all National Health Service records in England shared through the government’s planned single patient record (SPR).Murray, who is formally the secretary of state for health, told the House of Commons on 1 June that GP surgeries, NHS trusts and other care providers will continue to manage and take responsibility for their own records, but added: “Where that information is then shared through the single patient record, the Department of Health and the secretary of state will take on a role as data controller as well.”Asked by Labour MP Sarah Champion about the security of a system that could be accessible by a couple of million of health and social care workers, the health secretary said that the SPR “will be governed by the highest levels of security” including an audit trail of access and “the strongest available” cyber-security.
The government announced the SPR in the King’s Speech on 14 May, giving MPs their first chance to challenge it as part of the second reading of the health bill. It will require all English NHS providers to share data on patients, with patients in England able to access their records through the NHS app (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run their own health and social care services). The government argues that the SPR will mean healthcare professionals will not have to ask patients to recount their medical histories when first meeting them, improving safety.
