Kafico Ltd

The EHR is not a personal health record, it is a professional record containing personal data We have noticed a big increase in requests to amend, remove or add information to clinical records since the expansion of patient access to online medical records, and while some requests relate to genuine inaccuracies and should be corrected, others are not appropriate and can be tricky to manage for customers. Practices report patients asking for large sections of narrative to be added to records,...

Being someone's spouse, child, relative or next of kin does NOT automatically give them the right to access a deceased patient's medical records. We often get asked.. ✓ Who can legally request deceased patient records ✓ What "intestate" means ✓ When records can be released to family members ✓ How to handle contested will requests ✓ When discretionary disclosure may be appropriate ✓ Common mistakes to avoid Probably, one of the most common questions we receive from practices is whether a...

Organisations should not dismiss or treat requests differently because AI may have been involved. Anyone who knows me knows that I am super passionate about information rights and the role they play in protecting people. At their core, both FOIs and SARs are about empowerment. They are intended to give people the ability to understand decisions, challenge organisations, access their own information, and hold public bodies to account - often where there is a pronounced power imbalance. So,...