[F1Patient online services: provision of online access to full digital medical recordE+W
64ZB.—(1) A contractor must provide a registered patient (“P”) with the facility to access online relevant medical information if—
(a)its computerised clinical systems F2... allow it to do so, and
(b)P requests, in writing, that it provide that facility.
[F3(1A) Where P makes a request under paragraph (1)(b), the contractor must provide P with the facility by the end of the compliance period.
(1B) The contractor must configure its computerised clinical systems so as to allow its registered patients the facility to access online their relevant medical information.]
(2) In this regulation “relevant medical information” means any information entered on P’s medical record other than—
(a)any information which P can access online via a facility [F4provided in accordance with regulation 64ZA(1)], or
(b)any excepted information.]
Textual Amendments
F1Regs. 64ZA, 64ZB inserted (1.4.2020) by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/226), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4
F2Words in reg. 64ZB(1)(a) omitted (15.5.2023) by virtue of The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/449), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 6(2)